Wordie: Community: Comments

Comment by reesetee, 9 months ago

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:33:27 +0000

I agree, yarb. Check out uselessness' A Collectivist Utopia list (if you haven't already). :-)

Comment by yarb, 9 months ago

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:02:11 +0000

I've never liked this word. Everyone seems to want to put me in some community or other. Politicians, marketers. It's really an emasculated word in my opinion.

Comment by planspark, 9 months ago

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:56:26 +0000

"A community is a group of people who form relationships over time by interacting regularly around shared experiences, which are of interest to all of them for varying individual reasons." -- Jake McGee, 2005/02/28 (Source)

Meaningful community is critical

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:24:28 +0000

Certainly much misused and maligned in corporate and technology circles, ‘community’ remains an extremely critical word in work for constructive social change.

The destruction of meaningful community in “western” societies is a key component of the social and environmental problems in the world today. The dissociation that is enmeshed in virtually all aspects of the “modern” industrial/post-industrial society is at the root of our social ailments—which we cannot truly hope to overcome without finding ways to bring people together to form viable, ongoing and sustainable interconnections.

Comment by shii, about 1 year ago

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:52:40 +0000

God I hate this word.

Comment by bkerr, about 1 year ago

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:01:48 +0000

I just spent 30 minutes in a meeting where participants (unsuccessfully) tried to decide what they meant by "community."