"Community Glue"
What is the important thing you could do to reconstruct or sustain a community?
To reconstruct a community, one would have to begin with the fundamentals of that community. To begin with, there would have to be some form of organization that could maintain a balanced means of functioning. (For example, you would have to have some type of government or organization that could put together a bunch of things that would be beneficial to the reconstruction of the community. The Red Cross is a great example of this, because they help get communities back where they were.) Then, people to organize the organization would be required. It’s all a bunch of structures that intertwine and support one another that will eventually lead to the reconstruction of a community. I think that, also, you need to want the community to be rebuilt. I mean, many communities have fallen apart and without the interest to rebuild, many have never been revitalized, as it were. (Point in case, the Roman Empire.) Well, it seems to me that the need and want to restore the community must come before the programs to reinstate the community. They sort of go hand in hand.
To sustain a community, you must have something that binds the people together. Besides, the obvious solution of laws and regulations and whatnot, it seems that another answer is hate. Maybe something that they could go against (after all, look at the American people against Iraqis.... Americans were unified and a large community when they had something to hate together.) Maybe, hatred is a way that community is bound together. I mean, if you think about it, communities are sort of founded off of hatred to begin with. It just seems to be human nature. The drive to be better than ones fellow human being is insatiable.
Or maybe if you were to have a common goal (perhaps for the good of the nation) that would work as well. It seems that to hold a community together, one must be able to either have a common enemy or a common goal to ensure that the community stays as one. But this doesn’t seem as logical (to me) as hate (at least in the modern context that I am thinking of) because, it just doesn’t seem like human kind is very “humane” at all. I believe that man is innately corrupt and will serve himself before others. But, my personal philosophy aside, when people /do/ work together, a lot seems to be accomplished in a small amount of time. The wish to work together and be at peace with one another (even though it is impossible) is another thing that could bind communities together and fuel it’s sustainability.
To reconstruct a community, one would have to begin with the fundamentals of that community. To begin with, there would have to be some form of organization that could maintain a balanced means of functioning. (For example, you would have to have some type of government or organization that could put together a bunch of things that would be beneficial to the reconstruction of the community. The Red Cross is a great example of this, because they help get communities back where they were.) Then, people to organize the organization would be required. It’s all a bunch of structures that intertwine and support one another that will eventually lead to the reconstruction of a community. I think that, also, you need to want the community to be rebuilt. I mean, many communities have fallen apart and without the interest to rebuild, many have never been revitalized, as it were. (Point in case, the Roman Empire.) Well, it seems to me that the need and want to restore the community must come before the programs to reinstate the community. They sort of go hand in hand.
To sustain a community, you must have something that binds the people together. Besides, the obvious solution of laws and regulations and whatnot, it seems that another answer is hate. Maybe something that they could go against (after all, look at the American people against Iraqis.... Americans were unified and a large community when they had something to hate together.) Maybe, hatred is a way that community is bound together. I mean, if you think about it, communities are sort of founded off of hatred to begin with. It just seems to be human nature. The drive to be better than ones fellow human being is insatiable.
Or maybe if you were to have a common goal (perhaps for the good of the nation) that would work as well. It seems that to hold a community together, one must be able to either have a common enemy or a common goal to ensure that the community stays as one. But this doesn’t seem as logical (to me) as hate (at least in the modern context that I am thinking of) because, it just doesn’t seem like human kind is very “humane” at all. I believe that man is innately corrupt and will serve himself before others. But, my personal philosophy aside, when people /do/ work together, a lot seems to be accomplished in a small amount of time. The wish to work together and be at peace with one another (even though it is impossible) is another thing that could bind communities together and fuel it’s sustainability.