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A community is a group of people living together, defining an economic space with an inside and an outside. These boundaries are clear and visible.
A community is not a simple association or club. Each of them is one of the building blocks in a grand edifice that provides the foundation for a system that reconciles economy and humanity. They ensure sociability, proximity and identity - three dimensions of trust, one of the major resources sought by Homo Sapeins.
These social needs, such as the need to fulfill oneself, to be useful, to please and to have relationships, will ideally find their fulfillment within the framework of the community.
The term community is distinguished from the term network, which has no clearly defined boundaries.
The ideal is for each community to be as self-sufficient as possible in providing its own needs and services, i.e. to live as self-sufficiently as possible.
This is one of the community's primary virtues: its strong stability and resilience, i.e. its ability to endure in the face of external pressures and forces.
A community is considered self-sufficient when it is able to meet its own needs for food, water, energy, housing, transportation, health and other basic services without having to depend on the outside world.
The community has a human dimension. This ideal size must meet two requirements. On the one hand, it must not be too large, so that its functions of sociability, proximity and transparency can be ensured. Proximity does not mean that all members know each other, but that it's easy to meet. On the other hand, it must be large enough to ensure that the diversity of goods and services offered by the community is sufficient to cover most of its members' needs. At the same time, the variety of individuals and activities must be such as to provide a genuine space of freedom for its members.
Of course, this self-sufficiency has its limits: to be able to exchange resources and services for maximum fulfillment, we need to create exchanges and relationships between communities.
Society is then organized into different levels of communities:
Oases
The Edens
The Eldorados
Nirvana
Like all forms of organization, the community also has its vulnerabilities, which need to be known in order to be prevented.
Community membership will play an important role in the identity systems of its members and in the territorial markers of their products.
These will have a local dimension, based on local demographic, geographic, economic, ecological and administrative realities.
One of the first risks is that of a deviation that will manifest itself in a certain conservatism, and thus create situations where individual and innovative, entrepreneurial or institutional initiatives could come into conflict with the community.
The second risk is that of introversion, where the community will reduce its exchanges with the outside market more than necessary, leading to withdrawal into itself.
The solution, and what was already foreseen initially, is to extend reciprocity within the framework of a more global, multi-level community. By creating reciprocity between the Edens, the eldorados and nirvana, these higher communities will bind us together to ensure part of our fulfillment, while ensuring resilience and stability on the scale of local communities. What we're trying to create here is globalization.