Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Life is lived in common, but not in community.
I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.
Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.
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.
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.
I want to be clear: not all patient communities are great, any more than online communities of any sort. But when a good one gets going, boy is it sweet.
I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.
Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.