A Sociological Basis for Cyber-Communities

A long time ago Robert A. Nisbet A conservative sociologist Established the need for community as a balance to rampant society Community was face to face intensely educational developmental Society was impersonal and reifying turning us into commodities Others of Nisbet's time warned against ego-bolstering by society Today society can be equated with corporate and ego-bolstering is the very marrow of TV That and a sort of bullying subtext We are being fashioned by this force into compliant social beings
This is the sociological reason why cyber-communities are an apposite answer to the untrammeled advance of society -gesselschaft I wish folk like Chris Hedges and Cornel West would get their minds around this
A cyber-community is walkable A cyber-community is face to face A cyber-community places all elements of a city within a mile walk Schools work entertainment commerce residence Scaled to a population of no more than 10,000 A cyber-community requires the involvement of the corporate sphere It requires fruits of mass production and high tech But it also requires that corporations be responsive to  the democratic initiatives of those who form the community
It is a synthesis beyond the failed dialectics of the present binary discussion
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