Chris ~

2683 days ago

I do feel that there is something faintly patronising about the idea that we need to ‘create community’.  It is like a couple who move into a rural village and wonder why “nothing is happening here” and then alienate themselves by trying to start lots of things without just immersing themselves first and discovering what is already happening there.  Community is already there in most cases.  It is not the consensual, huggy, ‘let’s have a shared dinner’ kind of community that Findhorn specialises in.  It is a more chaotic, far more diverse, stubborn and atomised kind of community.  But it does exist.  It is neither better, nor worse,  just different.

Why ‘Community’ Might Not Need ‘Organising’

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I read with interest John Michael Greer’s recent post, The Costs of Community, and then Sharon Astyk’s response, On the Problem of Community and I wanted to add some thoughts to the flow.