People Need People
Article by Nora Bateson, creator of Warm Data Labs
The idea of ‘community’ is a good one, but the communication patterns of modern life make [community elusive]. Even the most like-minded or ‘intentional’ communities suffer breakdowns of relationships. People don’t know how to live with people.
Now what? People need people and people have no idea how to live with people. The ways in which community was generated in the past have slipped away…In the midst of finding ourselves, we lost each other. Now in this time of tumultuous, rapid change there is a need for another sort of collaboration, one in which improvisation is the basis. No one knows what chaos is coming next, or when or how to respond. The pandemic was evidence enough that governmental bodies and media were not suited to addressing localized unique situations. To get through these times a morale that underpins communal relationships must be nourished. This morale is a willingness to be flexible together, to be creative together, to ‘find a way’ where there is need. People need to find a way — to find a way.
