In times of alarm or proximate, local emergency, most humans instinctively band together like tribe and family. It's seems so natural. Getting this type of instinctual assistance, risk-taking, and support to scale out beyond neighborhood and community - to address less immediate, wider concerns and issues - is how and why politics and government was born.
As alarming as this account was, being involved in community action and response like you describe here is when I feel happiest and most fulfilled in my human being.
I’m completely with you! I experienced it as a return to our fundamental prosocial nature. I don’t want to wish for more emergencies, but it’s worth reminding myself that they tend to turn out this utopian sorta way when I’m stressing about the apocalyptic looking future.
In times of alarm or proximate, local emergency, most humans instinctively band together like tribe and family. It's seems so natural. Getting this type of instinctual assistance, risk-taking, and support to scale out beyond neighborhood and community - to address less immediate, wider concerns and issues - is how and why politics and government was born.
As alarming as this account was, being involved in community action and response like you describe here is when I feel happiest and most fulfilled in my human being.
I’m completely with you! I experienced it as a return to our fundamental prosocial nature. I don’t want to wish for more emergencies, but it’s worth reminding myself that they tend to turn out this utopian sorta way when I’m stressing about the apocalyptic looking future.