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a controlled setting which a sufferer can feel a part of, and this approach was created
out of necessity since the current worldview does not allow for much interaction
either within or between communities.
Other movements now filling some of the same needs include the subdividing of
large cities into a series of smaller districts offering individuals a sense of community
support which has been sorely lacking since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
Neighborhood Associations and Neighborhood Watch programs as well as the
return to community-based sports and the long gone ”beat-cop” are approaches that
some communities have taken on themselves.
The modern world is only slowly beginning to realize the part of the ancient
spiritual philosophy that states that “man is meaningless without a community.”
One of the most severe punishments for the ancient Germanic peoples was that
of “outlawry,” legally cutting a man off from home and community, yet with the
modern worldview, all individuals are subjected to outlawry by the simple fact of
being born.
Another aspect of community is now slowly beginning to take foothold, at least in
America. Although the concept of communal grazing and farming lands is long gone,
many American cities have revised and updated the concept in the forms of Boulevard
Median Adoption Programs, Community Owned Parks, Highway Adoption
Programs, and Beautification Projects. True, there are processes at work outside
human control like natural disasters, for example, but human beings are the ones
who can affect the lineage of a geographical area and help it to come back into the
wholeness/ health/ holiness of the entire system. Human effort, according to the
ancient Germanic spiritual principles, is to imitate the Powers of the sky-realm. As
the Germanic deities strove with combined effort to nurture the Universal home
against the forces of destruction, so communities strove together to maintain their
lands against the destructive forces of both nature and mankind. The purpose of the
fall slaughter of grazing animals was, in part, to prevent over-grazing of the lands
during the summer season. Concern about the health and well-being of the farmlands
can be seen in the Acre-bot discussed in Chapter 3. Acceptance of the ancient
Germanic spiritual philosophy requires a willingness to participate in community in
one form or another.
According to this ancient philosophy, personal responsibility and community
responsibility for acts committed are absolutely crucial, and the idea still holds
because it is at the very foundation of community-building and maintenance. Too
often federal or state governments are expected to “chip in” when a community itself
is to blame for littered highways, graffiti-laden walls, or toxic waste in the water.
Fines are often paid to the courts or a jail sentence is commuted while responsibility
by the perpetrator to the victim is overlooked. In the “suing society” of the late