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Part of the Series: Community Concepts

We think we are living a life that we choose, but how many of our choices are truly our own?

Today, we dress in modern clothes, not in 1800’s attire. Not because we made a conscious choice to dress like this, but because we unconsciously follow societal trends already set for us.

Today, we work in cubicles. Not because we decided this was the best way to live out 8 hours of our day, but most likely, because someone else decided for us, and we conceded to believe it was normal and acceptable.

Today, we speak a certain language, we eat a certain type of cuisine, not because others are inferior, but simply because we live in a certain time and geographical location.

Place and time have an enormous impact on what influences our unconscious decisions. Many of the choices we make and the freedom of choice we believe we have, the freedom of how we live our lives, is largely determined by the restraints of our physical being, economic status, geographic location, other demographics and of the expectations of the culture and society around us.

When it comes to how we define community, it’s no different.

Today, how we grew up, how we currently live and our cultural understanding of community all unconsciously shape and define our sense of community and how we relate to each other and the world around us.

Today, defining community usually relates to company culture or talking about how to create a YouTube or Instagram community…But, what does it leave missing?

The idea of an actual, physical village has been so far removed from our concept of community, and has become so foreign in concept that it’s as if it no longer exists in practical reality anymore…

But should it? Should the village still exist in our modern times or will it be forever etched in our memory as a “thing of the past”?

Today, it seems that there are so many non-tangible communities being built as a direct result of the absence of real, physical communities that it only further estranges us from one another and from the idea of intentionally building true neighborly community.

In my opinion, the substitute will never be as good as the real thing, but both serve their place.

Still, is the village obsolete and if not, who’s responsible for making it happen?

Can we do both or would we really need both if real community existed?

How many problems are being solved today by online communities or even local communities that are a direct result of needs inadequately being met or addressed by a missing local “village”?

Are we living a life that feels free or do we have the freedom to define what freedom means?

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