These calls for community values would not exist if the biologically determined need for community carried by all human beings as a birth right was being met. Fear is the motivating factor behind the entrenchment of human beings into family values. Folks are doing the best they can in the face of the onslaught on their lives such as downsizing, environmental degradation, loss of real income, media blitzes on violence, a new age of child rearing in which children are taught to question, reflect, and resist. All that is sacred to one's building existential meaning in one's life is under assault. The human animal retreats into itself.
Networks are exclusive groups connected through focusing on specific, explicit and shared interests.
Networks, by comparison, only require adherence to the specific, shared interest around which the network is formed. Authentic communities are inclusive, not exclusive. Implications Thinking about the future brings us to children, who are less than 20 per cent of our present society, yet 100 percent of our future one. For every child in this country is yours and mine, not just the ones who sleep in our respective homes. If you cannot answer unequivocally that you care, and every day act on that caring through actions, words and thoughts, then, frankly all is lost.