5: Community
Build community around voluntary sharing and collaboration Other Information:
When the spiritual sense of connection is recognized, conversations organically evolve towards people's common themes about
community. Community has to be examined more carefully. If you have community, how much cash do you need? And who do we actually
share with? Community is about voluntary collaboration; it's not about changing the tax code and forcing people to do something.
It is about whom do we share with, whom do we actually collaborate with? When are we actually willing to hand over cash, time
and assets to let people work with those resources as their own intelligence, talent and creativity allows? But if community
is voluntary cooperation, then how do we avoid the same racial and class lines seen in churches on Sunday? Whom do we cooperate
with, hire for jobs, lend money to and give gifts to without strings attached? If community is the solution, then we need
to learn how to cross community lines. There can be absolutely no community if we continue to emphasize the otherness of those
who do no share our appearance, education, beliefs or lifestyles. Community must be a unified thing, so finger pointing is
a guaranteed path to failure. Community building means voluntary sharing and collaboration, not intentional regulation of
the process through facilitation, but it does not mean the rest of the system cannot be shifted as a result of our learning
the ability to do this kind of sharing.
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