Community 101

The Truth About Neighbors, Coworkers, & Friends In Survival Situations by Daisy Luther (ZeroHedge)

Once social capital is destroyed, it can be rebuilt only slowly through fragmentation and coalescing aided by exclusion and the use of force.

The last days of the Imperium Americanum... what a poorly-run sh**show it's been. That's what happens when craven oligarchs are in charge.

The New Sharing Economy in the Silicon Valley

The "mega trend" that swallowed Silicon Valley

Plenty of people who want to be the middlemen for these transactions - a reminder that this is still a substitute for a true community in which people directly share their needs and things with their neighbors.

Related:
The Rise of the Sharing Economy
11 sites that want to rule the share economy
Can Trust Systems Build a New Economy From Ruin?
Occupy Big Business: The Sharing Economy's Quiet Revolution
What’s The Future Of The Sharing Economy?

Steve Sailer on the Latest with Robert Putnam

Goody Proctor, I hereby sentence you to be burned as a witch!

Putnam v. the Thernstroms

Related:
Better Together
Social Capital and Civic Community
Robert Putnam: Class Now Trumps Race as the Great Divide in America
Arthur Brooks, Robert Putnam, and the Opportunity Society
Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital


Part 2



Robert Putnam - Manchester [1/5] - 2, 3, 4, 5