I like to take this member only posts and try to talk about things that are little bit more important in life. The “big things” so to speak. They’re not as popular but I think they’re deeper and what you need. They’re the beef to the other articles sugar. What I want to talk about today is the human need for community and what this world actually means. It’s no secret that the modern world is “messed up” to put it lightly. Obviously any society put together by humans is messed up in some way but we’re reaching higher levels in today’s world.
Critical levels that lead to fallout and destruction. But even ideologies that go against the modern world can misinterpret things and get things wrong as well. While I think we can all agree modern feminism is harmful to both men and women at the same time things like the red pill or manosphere can be harmful as well. Meaning that we have to think on our own and not get attached to any one ideology. We have to think about what actually works and what doesn’t in our own lives.
Let’s circle back to community and how this all fits together. Community is essential to regular human development yet both “sides” seek to destroy community in its organic, natural, and healthy forms. For example modern society wants everyone atomized and away from each other. Look at the Orwellian “alone together” slogan we’ve all seen recently. They want people separated, divided, and at each others throats. The only “community” they allow are those that’ll never be strong or a threat.
What Community Is & Isn’t
Yet at the same time on the other end we have bad advice about community as well. We have things like you have to be an internet entrepreneur who travels the world and never settles down any one place. We have community is a bunch of dudes hanging out together. And so on and so forth, when neither is what community is. Both “sides” get it wrong. There’s a lot that goes into community so I think it’s important to point out both what it is and isn’t.
It’s not a bunch of guys hanging out together. It’s not a lifting club, boxing club, hang out in the woods gang, or anything like that. Nor are communities a bunch of people who have nothing in common that are forced to live in the same area. We may use community to describe these words but that doesn’t mean it’s what they are. One’s a gang and the other is called misery. There are a couple factors that need to be present for somewhere to have community.
The first is that the people of the community need something strong to bind them. Notice that I said strong, it can’t just be any one thing. For example liking the same sportsball team, living in the same geographical location, believing in the same watered down modernist religion. None of these things are strong enough to forge a community, at least in the true sense of the word. Communities are made up of young and old, male and female, they encompass elders, parents, sons, and daughters. Not just any one group.
Forging A Community
Here are some of the things that are needed to create a community, in the true sense of the word. Shared hardship is a big one. Race is another. Culture is probably the biggest one. Deep religion (so more Deus Vult than Joel Osteen) that people take seriously is another. There are more but those are the biggest ones that I can think of. It generally requires a combination of all of the above to forge a community. Just because someone has one of those things with others won’t make them a community (except maybe culture).
So how do you forge this? Well, truth be told it mostly happens organically and it’ll not be so much forging a community of your own (though there will be some exceptions) as it will be finding your community and becoming a part of it. Most modernized places in the world are atomized, the people are divided and at each other’s throats. Therefore easy to control and manipulate. Community, like family, works against this. And that’s why both are fought against in their true forms.
If you want to forge a community by yourself from scratch, it’ll be hard. You’ll have to find land, likeminded people, and a million other things I don’t have the space to go over here. I would recommend finding the place that is most like you culturally, racially, religiously and moving there, or at least visiting. Maybe rent a place for a couple months if your job allows. I’ve moved a lot over my life and it still blows me away how different places are from each other. Fifty miles away can be a whole different world, literally and figuratively.
Community Is Like An Immune System
Or at least a healthy true community is. It keeps out the infections that are spewed everywhere in today’s world. Whether it’s the media, school systems, Hollywood, music industry, or the billion other cancers spreading out from the Western world. Communities work as a safeguard, they work to help people stay on track and develop in right ways. They work as an immune system. They help to forge you and your family in the right path. They give to you as you give to them. Something you won’t experience much of being an atomized individual.
When I lived in atomized places you have to really watch helping others out or giving things out. It was usually just a recipe for getting taken advantage of. Likewise when I lived in strong communities you could give someone the shirt off your back and they’d pay it back two fold at least. People had each others back in the true sense. My advice would be to get out of your atomized, soulless city and find a community to become a part of. Life is too short to drift through endlessly. While there are advantages to travel and I still recommend everyone do so. Travel is all the sweeter when you have a secure home base to come back too.
