(This is the sixth occasional blog since the regular monthly blogs ceased - without pics due to technical issues - apologies)
The local rural area hereabouts has a useful sense of community, which these days may not be the case everywhere - ? It's helped by the fact it has its own church and at least equally important, a social club with bar, which facilitates people meeting up socially, as well as facilitating local social functions. There being so many large concerns in today's world has prompted some commentaters to question as to whether 'power poor' individuals have to some extent been dis-empowered, and as a result, have lost individual strength - ?
Some though, have formed their own 'mini communities', an example of which is illustrated. Perhaps it's the free market culture encouraging 'lone individual' operation which has then promoted to a degree individual 'alienation', along with modern commercial practice such as, say, non-contact shopping - ? This may to some extent tie in with the ancient ( and modern?) notion of man needing to 'find their way home', which was not nesessarily the case with some old-time so-called primitive peoples - ?
Now that religion seems to have been down-played in mainstream life, some are suggesting that it is man as the 'top dog' animal that has to then take up the reins of responsibility, which then has the implication that a varity of important areas (eg. such as environment, social, long-term security etc), rather than just individual focus, need to be taken more into account ----- A letter from a group of business leaders to a broadsheet paper last year supported such a more 'bio-diverse' approach.
