RE: Political diversity | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Rob Sandelin (Exchange) (RobsanExchange.MICROSOFT.com) | |
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:15:54 -0500 |
One point to add about all this diversity stuff: The people you start with on this journey, are sooner or later replaced by others. Do not gnash your teeth if your original community is all white, male, morman, accounting majors. Once you get it going and built, the next wave will include all sorts of randomness, uh I mean diversity. Political diversity is unlikely to happen if your community mission statement reads like a liberal manefesto. It is always a good idea to have outsiders read your mission statement and give you feedback on what they sense from it. So I had my grandpa, a 92 year old reactionary republican borderline John Bircher react to Sharingwoods mission statement. He nailed it on the spot: "Sounds like a bunch of damn liberal Dem-O- crats to me." And he was right, we are a largely a bunch of liberal democrats, with one libertarian, and one moderate republican. It is interesting to me that our neighborhood had 100% voter turn out in the last election and it was great having all those dinner conversations about school board candidates, judges, and fire commissioners; positions I would have had no clue about how to vote otherwise. I think as a community you need a certain amount of conformity to purpose and goals in order to function. Within the conformity to the community goals, whatever diversity you can get is fine. For example at Sharingwood we have a 5000 square foot house and a 100 sq. foot house, we have a millionaire (not me) and a guy who could be the poster boy for the simple living movement (he lives in the 100 square foot place - which is made entirely out of recycled stuff). The two of them get along pretty well, although they span a pretty good range of diversity between them. However, in another environment, say your typical suburban neighborhood, I would be amazed if they would even talk to each other. So hurray for diversity, Rob >
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Political diversity Larry Israel, June 17 1996
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- RE: Political diversity Rob Sandelin (Exchange), June 18 1996
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