Primer

I've had lots of thoughts recently in the realm of community and its removal from the cannon or pantheon of humanity. My problem/gripe with what people think of as their community/neighborhood is that it possesses no sense of collective or fellowship in any substantial way. We have become more like solitary wondering nomads who, mostly, randomly intersect at various venues where people who have no heart set up to profit off of individuals and families to give a false sense, even in the most vague and shallow way, that there is some community or fellowship, which is false. I think there is a wisdom to be found in scaling the immediate network that we deal with on a daily basis down to a human level but intensifying the relations within the network. This is possible through the "quarter" method, which I'm not proposing here because I don't like the idea of having walled sections of urban space zoned as the physical boundary of another's reality. The second option for the scaling down to a human level our society as the agrarian commune in line with the back to the land movement, and before that the Jewish communities in Palestine of the first half of the twentieth century, and previously the ashram, etc. Something I know about what these endeavors would have to include is a mission greater than individual, group, and most certainly money, that it served. I cannot understand it as an extension of one wisdom tradition's culmination as in the Ashram for Hinduism. To me it would have to be more philosophically vague to make it more humanly inclusive. Serving the collective should then be assessed based upon what is needed, what skills one has, what essentials have been established and can be improved upon, et cetera. Example, you don't start out with grain silos before you have root cellars. Kind of basic but for humans you have to make sure and just go ahead and say it. The old English social medicine system is kind of a model I can use as an example. Biomes can be divided into local cells and all levels of the community can and should take part in them sustainably from raw materials harvest to ever creatively diversifying forms of finished products and distribution of them. In a real way this should be the educational system of the children in each cell thus eliminating theoretical educational systems and the scum companies such as logging companies which get in the way of our stewardship of community resources as our National Forests are. Closer relation that is direct is a saving grace. Look at what has happened to the food system by our acquiescence to not have to involve ourselves in that aspect of this world of which we are a part. If you don't know, here it is: business has turned us into ignorant slobs who dig on a plethora of poison and don't know it and prefer not to be told because, "It tastes good.", which is pathetic. I can see all levels of what humans do being on community cell levels from raw materials harvest to advanced scientific pursuits to rival any ivy league institution if the community cell has heart and believes in it's self.