On Community Organizing
Rebounding from the Dallas Taylor book, I have begun reading a more clean and cheerful book that Bennett Books sent me, called ‘ Needs of a New Age Community. This is the most readable of any of Mr. Bennetts books, using language that I can understand, most of the time. For instance, check out the following paragraph fragment :
” What I see is not the disappearance of large organizations, but that a kind of cooperation will arise. The need for communities will be so evident that they will be accepted. This in fifty years time. At the same time, on account of the complexity of the world, large institutions will be needed. There will be a kind of symbiosis for a considerable time. ”
I am hoping for a symbiosis of small communities and large institutions. J.G.B. also speaks of how small communities might be so small as to not be threatening to large institutions. He speaks of how large institutions have been guilty in the past of stamping out small communities that the institution finds threatening. I wish that the small community in which I currently reside fulfilled my needs…
With community at a distance,
I.C.