We need a philosophical basis for communities that can survive and thrive in the modern world. And religious, too, but that goes without saying. We can look back at the last century and clearly identify the failures, such as fascism, Christianity, communism, capitalism and the various New Age cults, and we often do, but it seems to me that precious few people these days are actually putting in the effort to find a solution to the ongoing destruction of community.

A solution is badly needed, and as much as I like the academic and intellectually stimulating discussions on sites like this one, I sometimes see them as a distraction from what a lot of readers would likely agree is a critically important issue.