Ben Hyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> That paper references a lot of obviously hard won models of what > community is, so now I'm going to have to go read a mess of stuff. Definitely interesting reading. > I find it's amazingly rare to find anything about community that isn't > moronic, simplistic, or romantic. Or worse argues that community is > just another victim of modern life. I think quite the contrary that > the net is a typhoon of community building. There was a great PBS special on Benjamin Franklin a few weeks ago. While quoting Franklin may be "hitting below the belt" to an American, his brilliant speech to rescue the signing of the US Constitution is certainly worth a read. Here's a url describing the particulars (the actual speech is linked within the main text): http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_citizen_founding.html -- Joe Schaefer
