Thought provoking questions

Who's going to maintain the technology? Who's going to evolve it? Who gets paid or who has to pay for it? These questions led me down an exploration of what we can broadly call “governance.” How do people make decisions and take actions together? How do they build social fabric in order to make those decisions? How do they trust each other enough... See more

When you think about the way that community has transformed from really embedded familial networks or village networks or religious networks, to thinner communities of interest, or thinner communities of identity, or even digitally connected communities with no in-person engagement, it begs the question: “What is the ground on which you're standing... See more

If democracy is this challenge of people coming together to figure out the kind of shared lives they want to forge, then the behaviors that they use to negotiate difference are going to flow from the commitments they have to each other.

making change not only had to alter the roots of an unjust system, but it also had to be rooted in real people

we are made for more community and more relationships than we currently have

What is the ground on which you're standing to make those deeper commitments? And is that ground sturdy enough and resilient enough to bear the weight of the messiness of it all?”

As anyone who's been in a relationship or family unit knows, it's really messy work. The question facing us now is: “How do we build societal structures that can hold that... See more

does encountering others across class in the same spaces lead to connecting with people across class in those spaces?

Question raised: Can non-religious forms of community foster the same sense of commitment and obligation as religious communities?