Once upon a time, community happened because human beings lived near each other for generations and had time to figure out that there were distinct benefits associated with being able to depend on each other for support. In contemporary society a distinction is made between "real community" and other variants, with the difference being the presence of

Community required

Various folks have posited, based on their experience with human nature, that we are unlikely to step into the next phase in human development until we are forced to do so by survival necessities. For instance, emphasizing competition to the degree that risk
sufficient to collapse our global monetary system.

, working well together rather than exploiting our long established tollerance for

or as Joseph Campbell so famously put it - that old mythology is dead. Only _belief_ in the direness of our situation and the requirment to build community on purpose in place of failed structures, together with the likelihodd that we will be too late in making our transition, will provide hope for a future complete with a functioning ecosystem: air to breathe, water to drink, food to eat, and places to live relatively free from bodies torn by war.

It's not about being nice. , but about survival. Have we reached that point? We have.