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Part 6:  Necessary Components for Community Sustainability

The difficulty most human beings have in grasping community and how it operates is that community in a very real sense is something that happens in parallel while the individual, from the perspective of his own life, operates sequentially. As a result, from a personal perspective, the vast majority of individuals have no intuitive feel for something that is operating on a massively parallel basis. So, therefore, the individual has no real feel for community at large.

But in order to assure community survival, at least a reasonable number of individuals must open themselves up to the idea that thousands if not millions of things are happening about them all at the same time. And, in fact, the more things that happen simultaneously within an individuals surroundings, the more advanced the culture becomes. And all of this is possible because there are staggeringly large numbers of individuals working together with each doing one specific task in the grand puzzle.

Historically the economist has called this massive parallel cooperation the division of labor. This single most important thing that we who wish to preserve community must do is to make sure that nothing interferes or restricts this parallelism of civilization or put in simpler terms, we must do everything to maximize the division of labor especially with regards to those industries that we depend upon for survival.

As mentioned in the previous segment, we have already identified the first two major components of this parallelism -- that of generation, distribution and utilization of electrical power. The second is the creation, maintenance and utilization of money to determine what to produce and how much.

In this segment we will consider the list of additional parallel components that we depend upon and that we need to make sure continue in order for us to survive and prosper. General information on each component has been linked below and future videos will go into much more detail. In the meantime, supporting articles, web pages and videos can be found in the Educational Resources section.

Clean Water Production and Delivery
Food
Shelter and Transportation
Lighting
Heating
Clothing
Medicine
Sanitation and Waste Disposal
Generation of Raw Materials
Chemical Processing
Processing of Raw Materials - Tool and Die
Communication
Computing Technology
Education
Maintaining of Standards
Justice
Defense

Part 7: Our Future Under the 4th Industrial Revolution

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