Reading this article reminds me so much of how our farm stand has become a village -- so to speak… where people come meet other people. The hootenanny in particular is so much like a village too. The village effect is a metaphor for the social contacts we all need as humans in order to thrive. These are the strong social ties that develop naturally in a village, where by necessity you cross paths with each other repeatedly every day. When you think of most villages, there is a central square, a public area where everyone converges or passes by going to the grocer or the post office or city hall or to sit at a cafe. And that is something we have less and less of today in our era of online connections. Commerce is moving online, everything is moving online, and these traditional village spaces are disappearing.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 04:55:18 +0000