Do you think the world as a whole lacks a sense of community?

Question

It seems to me that from alll levels, ranging from towns, to states, to countrys, to the entire globe, that there is a major lack of community. There are no clearly stated goals out there for the global community to tackle, leaving us with a house divided. So, what I'm really asking is, what goals should we have as a glabal community? What must we overcome to form a working global community? And finally, What do you think of the current state of the Global community?

Answer 1

The world does lack a sense of community. But to understand why we have to look at out culture today. We have the wrong Idea of what community is. We have all of these unrealistic relationships that are held together by online chatting, and not hand in hand community. We have phone calls instead of speaking in person. The people that we talk to each day in a chat room aren't there for us to cry, laugh, pat us on the back in the way God intended.
Its about the word fellowship, we don't have a sense that we are in this together anymore. You don't like someone, what do you do? Delete them from your buddy list. Things like forgiveness and responisbility don't exist in this new global 'online' world. Until we get our eyes off our buddy lists and onto real personal relationships, we'll never have this sense of community that many of us crave.

Answer 2

As a global community I feel that some of the goals we should have include looking back into history to find a time when there was less to divide us from one another, and use this as a reffrence point to show that no matter how far we have come we are all still human and the same, society and culturle diffrence aside. The next step in my opinion should be is to realize that with all the food production the the world there should never be a child that goes to sleep hungry. If shelter and food are taken out of the things that people in the world need then those people can become productive and begin giving back to the next generation. The most important and indestructable thing we must overcome is the desire for power over another human, if you can look at all others as brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, then they are no longer just objects to control. The current state of the global community is I feel an accurate representation of the cities and states of the world where there are those whom kill and those whom save, those whom destroy and those whom create.

Answer 3

Well ... for what ever reason we seem to be coagulation towards more and smaller subcultural communities. Could be a response to the threat of Globalization. That is one of the reasons for the rise of neo-religious community political cohesiveness. Could be that we are perceiving a threat at a larger level that is not being addressed so we are looking to collect into small groups. Can't tell you why. Just what I am seeing.

Answer 4

I don't know the answer, but you're right. Even as the world gets smaller, there seems to be less and less sense of community. It may be that everyone has a cell phone stuck to their ears or are logged onto a computer for hours at a time that makes us more solitary people.

Answer 5

No,
Just at loss with the original identity of mankind over the loss of the missing x-files on planet earth.

Answer 6

It is a community.
An F'd up community.

Answer 7

yes. that's why i want to live in the 40's

Answer 8

i don't think so