A Shift to Small Communities?

Our focus is to create an intentional community of people collaborating together virtually, sharing common interests, intellectual property, resources, work and social currency. In addition to the communal economies, collaborative decision-making, non-hierarchical structures and ecological existence - this has become important core principle for many successful communities.

The central characteristic of communities and the definition of what a community is have changed over the years. In the 1960s, almost any counter-cultural, rural, intentional community was called a commune. At the start of the 1970s, communes were regarded by Ron E. Roberts in his book, “The New Communes“, as being a subclass of the larger category of Utopias.

An intentional community is a natural migration of human dynamics where the commune is designed to have a higher degree of “connectivity” than traditional communities on and off-line. The members of an "intentional" community typically hold a common social, political, economic or brand vision and are often part of the alternative society. Sound familiar?

You see the “human network” naturally migrates to communities that hold a common social, political, religious or spiritual vision. One community to another may interact as “knowledge inventories” are shared between each commune for the benefit of the whole. “Communities” are only separated by degrees of relational affinities which are maximized by the smallness of the commune vs. large communities which become impossible to hold a common social, political, economic or brand vision.

The word “community” may spark connotations of Hippies. True but now 2.0 Hippies are large in number but are only comfortable in small communes. The only way to “connect” to communes is to insure you understand the relevant philosophy. In other words you have to believe in something bigger than yourself, your company or the popular communities of today. The only thing bigger is a philosophical connection with a small group of people connected to many other small groups. It only took twelve to change the world. Get it?