We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.
There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe.
Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.
Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.
We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends.
If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.
We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.