Have you ever wondered what community is? Its an interesting topic.
It is a topic that has become increasingly important now that we are running out of resources which sets limits on growth. The old economic ideas are just falling away.
The first ten minutes of this video challenges the basis of today's economic philosophy.
Professor Al Bartlett makes a strong case for the end of capitalism two minutes into this video.
A community can be a location such as a neighbourhood. Members of a community can share a common sense of identity such as coming from Bermuda, or the Caribbean, or the West.
A community can also be people linked by-
A common set of practices. See medical associations, acting guilds, or knitters
Or shared interests. See physicists, book clubs
Or similar values and shared intentions. See ecologists; or the Intentional Communities movement – http://www.ic.org/
So identity, practices, interests, values and intentions attract people together. They bring a level of organization to society.
Ultimately life seems to be about coming together to resolve our differences of identity, practices, opinions, values, intentions - and do this in as conscious ways as possible.
Today, with the internet to assist us, life could be about coming together to find mutual fulfillment and strength through collaboration.
I believe the internet is here to help neighbourhood communities advance beyond old ways of doing things. I believe these communities will continue to reorganize internationally around the internet.
Why do I think this? The biggest losers in globalization were national governments. National leaders have given away much of their power to unelected officials within international agencies. This has been a trend since about 1995. And this is exactly when the internet started to catch on.
So it's time for change. Let's use the internet to spread solutions internationally. And let's organize locally where we can have an immediate effect on how things get done.
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