When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.
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.
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.
The average Londoner knows just one neighbour. I travel a lot, and I'm always surprised by the strong sense of community in some countries. We've lost something fundamentally human, and we don't even realise it.
We are all neighbors. And we must love neighbors as ourselves.
We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.
What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.
With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?
Neighbors are competitors instead of partners, suspicious instead of trustful, indifferent instead of helpful, cold instead of loving, greedy instead of generous. We no longer consider ourselves living in neighborhoods, but only as living next to 'hoods.'