Community
Mo Shafieeha and
Community
Every Village Needs a Jester
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Craft Forward
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Ultimately, Agreements are a collective wish we make about how we might be in the same space together. That space could be a classroom, a sports team, a club, a conference, committees or boards, an organizing group. They reflect what we need to participate while feeling joyful, trusted, and brave.
But they also can be flimsy as hell.
But they also can be flimsy as hell.
Elise Granata โข The Occasional Flimsiness of Group Agreements
Tara McMullin and
Community is the currency of the new internet and memberships is how youโll get paid.
GREG ISENBERG โข Tweet
communities dying, memberships thriving is a thought worth considering.
"When you throw trash on the ground, you apparently don't see yourself as truly belonging in the world that you're walking around in. And when you fraudulently claim money from the government, you are ultimately stealing from your friends, family, and neighbors - or somebody else's friends, family, and neighbors" - Tribe, Sebastian Junger (p.112)
I donโt think technology alone can fix that. It takes people who care about other people. Caring, I think, is the one thing that cannot be outsourced or automated. We can certainly create the illusion of care, and that illusion might be better than nothing for someone who has none, but ultimately I hope everyone gets access to people who care about
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Zooming out: great communities, in the traditional sense, required limited options so people would remain dependent: no specialists or external trade (to ensure we all collectively worked together), and no diversity or weird ideas (to ensure a homogenous group with a focus on tradition). We had far worse medical treatment, underwent excruciating manual labor, and didnโt necessarily share the same interests with others, but because we were dependent on each other, the bonds were strong. Now the options are virtually limitless, and weโre seeing our social bonds decay as a result.
Everybody wants to fight for their rights,
but nobody wants to talk about their responsibilities.