Do me a favor and try to spot the snake in the grass here:
In Networked: The New Operating System, a community is defined as “fluid personal networks rather than a static neighborhood or family group” (p.122).
Communities....are...fluid...."people"....on your phone.......
When I hear things like this being passed as education, I seriously question my sanity and intelligence. Thank god for all those IQ tests growing up. Hard evidence is always refreshing.
No. Communities are not fluid people on your phone. Communities are a group of people, usually the family, that allow for the impartation of a tradition that interprets the one and only objective truth through a shared epistemic artifact mediated by experiences with the environment. The East has ALWAYS been collectivist, not fluid, and just now, and the West has always been individualist since Columbus. This comes from traditional interpretations of reality and their view on basic human concepts such as autonomy, ego, and the shadow.
Even a casual reading of giants like Jung, Socrates, and EVEN Neitchzche leads to the idea that a dogma that interprets the symbols of our minds is static. Moreover, communities are places for intimacy and collective learning. The family unit used to be the core of these communities, where it would take years of intimacy and interactions to mold personalities and socialize children. Jung says that the sole reason for human life is the integration of the Anima and Animus through intimacy and trust (marriage) and the integration of the shadow (social foil).
OR we can take the easy way out and follow the brass snake that tells you that meeting people offline is the same as having "friends."
Look around: does it look like we are not bitten and perishing? Will you be taking a selfie when Moses raises the defeated brass serpent? Will you be in the Coliseum when Apollo comes to slaughter the Python?
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