A large reason for the decline in norms around building local communities is that there is a new source of competition for organizational talent: building online communities. … we don’t know how to make a complete civil society out of online institutions.
I’m not exactly disagreeing with your overall point here, but the very notion of “online communities” is simply nonsensical: a social club or social group is not a “community” in the sense that applies in the physical world. Thus, any goal of “mak[ing] a complete civil society” that operates entirely online is even more nonsensical. The rule of thumb, as always, is to “think globally [about global issues], act locally [leveraging your local social groups]”.
I’m not exactly disagreeing with your overall point here, but the very notion of “online communities” is simply nonsensical: a social club or social group is not a “community” in the sense that applies in the physical world. Thus, any goal of “mak[ing] a complete civil society” that operates entirely online is even more nonsensical. The rule of thumb, as always, is to “think globally [about global issues], act locally [leveraging your local social groups]”.