Recently finished reading my copy of "Communities that Abide" by Orlov. I pulled the following from the book as it seems to reflect what I see in our community of RC. At least to the extent as is possible with a virtual community. There is much more to the book than this, but I see this as the single most important quality of a community that will survive into the future. The paperback edition is sold out but I understand Kindle is available. Most all the book can be found in sections on the web if you look around:
" . . . a well-designed community can provide everything its members need: housing, nutrition, education, medicine, entertainment, companionship, social security and, perhaps most important of all, a sense of belonging. To people who live with the feeling that they belong to a cohesive community, where each member puts the interests of the whole ahead of their own individual interest, this is an incredible source of power. Social security, not in the sense of receiving a promised check from an anonymous institution, but in the sense of being tied in with the people around you through an informal web of obligations of mutual self-help, is equally important . . ."
Part one can be found here:
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2013/07/c ... art-i.html
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 2:14 pm
