Not just for our interest, but to help new and existing communities. So there are rewards for doing this work, not just personally, as in academic rewards and personal appreciation, but rewards to the movement as a whole. It used to be that people were born into community, as in clans, tribes, neighborhoods, villages and small towns. In industrialized cultures the natural forms of community lifestyles no longer exist, unless they are deliberately created. The only way to recreate what we have lost in our culture is through building intentional community.
People now have the choice to live in intentional or circumstantial community.
And we have good outlets now for people in community to express why they live there and what they think of their current lives. The voices that we do not hear are those who have left intentional community and now live again in the world of circumstantial community. For anyone contemplating building or joining community, or contemplating leaving the community they now live in, what we have to say is significant. Our thoughts and our voices need to be heard. There is much work to be done.