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Markets and Communities
Unfortunately, the patterns of our techno-social order tend toward the fracturing of community and the isolation of the person. We are offered an array of tools that promise to assuage the resulting economic and psychic precarity, but, more often than not, their real aim implicit in their design is to perpetuate and accelerate social fragmentation ... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Answer Is Not More Information
The convergence of social networks, a renewed belief in the importance of community, pressing environmental concerns, and cost consciousness are moving us away from the old top-heavy, centralized, and controlled forms of consumerism toward one of sharing, aggregation, openness, and cooperation.
Rachel Botsman • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
We live less and less of our lives in the same temporal grooves as one another. The unbridled reign of this individualist ethos, fuelled by the demands of the market economy, has overwhelmed our traditional ways of organising time, meaning that the hours in which we rest, work and socialise are becoming ever more uncoordinated. It’s harder than eve
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
“Once upon a time people were born into communities and had to find their individuality. Today people are born individuals and have to find their communities.”