Organizing principles

Trying to understand how to think about community renewal and redevelopment, especially as related to a formerly blighted community. My perspective is as a resident since 1966 yet I want to be able to expand into a broader perspective. Since many community ills have been identified, I am choosing a healing perspective as my organizing principle. This is problemmatic inasmuch as no one else seems to share this perspective, making  it more difficult for me to share ideas with other community members. Therefore, in discussions around community development, I am choosing to raise awareness of the healing perspective first, and then make my points about the community with healing as the central principle.

As long as the organizing principle of the greater society is not about healing, there seems like there will be an inherent conflict. If modern society's organizing principle is consumption, everything that does not advocate consumption will seem to be a failure. Since I consciously reject the principle of consumption as supreme, I have to become aware of others' organizing principle.

In order to have constructive communication about most topics, but especially about community, it's important that I make others aware that I choose the path of health and healing and cooperation versus competition.