Community is a belief in the collective.
Together we can create a quality of life or set of services that individuals, operating alone, can not deliver. Simple and reasonable as this sounds, it is an alien concept to modern American life. Inc. Certainly we have the skeletons of community. We live in neighborhoods, we work in organizations, we buy insurance to spread risk, we elect our own government. We surround these bones, however, with a cultural belief in the lonely hero, the triumph of individualism and a deep distrust of all things communal.