[Solar-general] Fwd: Balancing Individualism and Communitarianism

[Nicolás Reynolds]

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> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:00:22 -0000 From: "P2P Foundation: Franco
> Iacomella" <feeds en ponape.com.ar> To: fauno Subject: Balancing Individualism
> and Communitarianism User-Agent: rss2email
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> Allen Butcher:
> 
> _"Much is being said about values today by the media, by government, by
> religious groups, by social organizations and others. Conservative rhetoric
> challenges the teaching of "moral relativism" as a cause of social decay,
> while liberal litanies of cultural demise decry the individual's focus upon
> what Gregory Bateson termed the "skin encapsulated ego." Note that there is
> a level of agreement in the views espoused by these two cultural poles.
> Focusing upon this common concern about the excess of individualism in our
> society can provide a foundation for a consensus, upon which a program of
> advocacy for communitarian values may be built.
> 
> To successfully advance intentional community it is important to not permit
> the debate to be defined as the individual versus society, or vice versa, but
> rather to advance the anthropologist Paul Radin's preference that".. .the
> individual and the group .. . resist submergence of one by the other" (Arthur
> Morgan, Guidebook for Intentional Communities, Community Service, Inc.,
> 1988).
> 
> A dynamic balance between individual and society is the goal, encouraged in
> the local community by its provision of a human scale, knowable society in
> which individuals have reflected to them, and recognize, the importance of
> their personal roles. The community is comprised of a range of different
> types of families, always changing with the lifecycles of birth, growth, new
> births and deaths.
> 
> Through all this the local community seeks to maintain itself as an ongoing
> entity, providing a fixed context against which to measure the changes in our
> personal microcosms, and of the ever quickening and often unsettling changes
> in the vast, global culture beyond the community. Through first identifying
> just what communitarian values are, then how they relate to the issues of the
> day, a basic strategy can be developed for creating a community-building
> industry. And we may not be as far from this ideal as it may seem." _
> 
> **Source: [https://we.riseup.net/assets/4969/ELAN.pdf][1]**
> 
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> 
> ![][8]
> 
>    [1]: https://we.riseup.net/assets/4969/ELAN.pdf [2]:
>    http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/P2pFoundation?d=7Q72WNTAKBA [3]:
>    http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/P2pFoundation?a=OHhlKDm56JY:YeGSsilXBSA:7Q72WNTAKBA
>    [4]:
>    http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/P2pFoundation?i=OHhlKDm56JY:YeGSsilXBSA:D7DqB2pKExk
>    [5]:
>    http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/P2pFoundation?a=OHhlKDm56JY:YeGSsilXBSA:D7DqB2pKExk
>    [6]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/P2pFoundation?d=2mJPEYqXBVI [7]:
>    http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/P2pFoundation?a=OHhlKDm56JY:YeGSsilXBSA:2mJPEYqXBVI
>    [8]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~4/OHhlKDm56JY
> 
> URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~3/OHhlKDm56JY/16

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