Kos has cared about his neighbors for only four months (the board game)

In the context of a post in which he makes relatively benign, and banal, observations about becoming a new homeowner, the big-hearted progressive Markos Moulitsas Zúniga also makes what I think is a rather extraordinary, if inadvertent, admission:

And while I've been a homeowner for only four months, I've quickly learned just how important home ownership can be. For the first time in my life, I actually care about my neighborhood and neighbors.

Maybe this is just a kind of slip of the tongue, but I’m guessing it bespeaks a good deal. At least I’ve found it to be the case that in the angry left people I know personally, while they may be quite energized, it’s almost always in an abstract way and in pursuit of only political ideals, and never, in my recollection, in actual, concrete, personal service to their neighbor, neighborhood, community, or city.

So let’s have a little fun and start a game of our own, shall we? See who can come up with the explanation, analogy or allusion, historical or otherwise, that best captures and satirizes the phrase "Kos has cared about his neighbors for only four months." I’ll start us off with this line from a U2 song, itself both an analogy and an allusion to a famous quote: "And a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, when you’re trying to throw your arms around the world." Can you think of other examples? Or, simply supply one yourself. It’s fun for the whole family.