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This seems very familiar, hmm....

But seriously, when I saw this new post from Shawn Wilbur I knew I would have to engage in one way or another. And in his opening comment he sort of says a similar thing --

"I confess that I am fairly old school in my rejection of both simple individualism—in all of its more atomistic forms—and all of the forms of “social” thought that, when push comes to shove, don’t seem to amount to much but some kind of anti-individualism. "

I have not read much of Shawn's workshop offerings, to my detriment, but I did look at the start of Pierre Leroux's essay, and wrestling with issues of here vs. the hereafter, lucre, what is moral, etc. is of course not new.
"Jesus Christ once chased the merchants from the temple: there are today no other temples than those of merchants."

So, when I said what is plagiarized above, it is said with almost 200 years of additional thought (not my own, I plagiarize too) about what "the brotherhood of man" meant and can mean given who is left out of the equation.