diff --git a/writing/3/unknown-things/mfa/communities.md b/writing/3/unknown-things/mfa/communities.md index 510c5245..5e18fa4b 100644 --- a/writing/3/unknown-things/mfa/communities.md +++ b/writing/3/unknown-things/mfa/communities.md @@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ Thus having localized communities spring up around both these identities/classes What these communities do also shifts. -At one point, it's stipulated that there aren't jobs or professions in a post-scarcity system, just intensive interests. +At one point, it's stipulated that there aren't jobs or professions in a post-scarcity system, just intensive interests. Congregations might build up communities or subcommunities around these interests. To borrow from my own experience, there likely wouldn't be a need for a facilities committee; the meetinghouse would never age, nothing would break down. However, perhaps there would be more game nights, more art nights, more social gatherings, dinner parties, picnics: the responsibilities community-building and worship-and-ministry committees would expand to fill those roles. With no ailing physical health, the responsibilities of care committees shift to those of support for lingering mental illness, mediation for disagreements, and support for a desire to change. + + [^left]: While not strictly pertinent, it's interesting to note that, as Brad Lee Onishi describes in "The Orange Wave", prior to the seventies, one's church was often further left than its membership, leading to organized letter-writing campaigns, donation drives, and political organization behind what are now considered strictly liberal points. It wasn't until the rapid rise in evangelicalism that this began to change, with the neo-Calvinism core at many of their theologies professing an "if you're poor/downtrodden/discriminated against, you likely deserve it".