----- Forwarded message from "P2P Foundation: Franco Iacomella" <[email protected]> -----
> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:00:22 -0000 From: "P2P Foundation: Franco > Iacomella" <[email protected]> To: fauno Subject: Balancing Individualism > and Communitarianism User-Agent: rss2email > > 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]** > > [![][2]][3] [![][4]][5] [![][6]][7] > > ![][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 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Salud! Nicolás Reynolds, xmpp:[email protected] omb:http://identi.ca/fauno OTR: C0CB1F0F 01DB5E18 2D634C2A A4626858 E7C7C3A2 http://parabolagnulinux.org http://endefensadelsl.org "Freedom [...] is messy" ~ Eben Moglen
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