The day a community knows it doesn't need uplifting from an outsider or from anybody is the
day the community emerges from darkness. There is no
light at the end of a tunnel, as
people were promised, but they have to help themselves figure that out on their own.
The community was liberated from the darkness when it knew it would never need uplifting or morale
boosting from anyone or anywhere, because
people were already
happy enough there without assistance.