Thanks for the reply. If I follow what you are saying, I think you are actually largely agreeing with my post. Here is how:

In historical context a man's duty to his family is a part of communal manhood. What's more, those who a man loves are his people, the community he lives within.

The industrial revolution blew apart family and community, atomizing our lives and leading to hyper individualism. So on this side of the revolution it is hard to imagine phrases like "public good" and terms like "communal" as not being collectivist scams and propaganda meant to lull us into dehumanizing servitude.

But we are made for community. The duties of the communal man are aimed toward the wellbeing of his household, then his immediate community (neighbors, fellow churchmen, civic life in his town/city/region), and then to his nation (his *people* more broadly, as in, loving those with whom he shares larger national life over the foreigner. This is not to say he *cannot* love the foreigner, only that his duties are toward his own people first).

Hope that adds some clarity.