Are we losing the ability to live in community?
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Once we were forced to live together. Small houses, large families. You had to make it work, there was no-where else to go.
Now we don’t join communities. We look for people who are the same as us online, and hang out with them. And when things get hard, we check-out. If someone disagrees with us, we abandon them, or abuse them.
We end up in ever smaller communities of those who agree with me, until we’re the only one left!
I want to encourage you to join groups that are a bit diverse and different, in real life. Be it a tennis club, rotary or church. And don’t give up on them. You might need some people one day who won’t give up on you.
Paul Clark’s musings can be heard on radio across Australia and at atthetop.org.au.
