This looks very good but kind of links with my previous post about the media. A lot of the narratives in the media and in services and communities are about whats going wrong and fa about what going well got better or getting better.For example we are not quite sure what to do with all the older people in our communities because we are the first generation to have them in these numbers. Fifty years ago average life expectancy was twenty years lower. An amazing and very positive social change.
The negativity really impacts on peoples interest in and ability to be in their community? This negativity is true of this site as well? I am not denying at all that there is a lot that is bad, dreadful,and appalling, but if this is the only narrative its hopeless and people retreat into their own worlds or lists? What was interesting about the media thing was the advent of the net etc which is undermining the grip of the sun etc. Sun circulation is steadily falling which is something to be very happy about?
 
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