Blessed Are the Organized

"The first is the way we connect the experience of people with big ideas. The second is the way we function as learning organization. The third is the fact that we don't depend on a single strong individual."
Even though this is only a conversation between Stout and Cortes in the airport, I think it is very crucial to what we are talking about right now in class: the connection between people and how this connection works and increases social capital, and finally we should all work as a collective group rather than single unrelated individuals. I think these three things are really important for the" network of citizens",  especially the third one. I feel that right now people are living in a community with many other people, and we think that since this is such a big community that has this many great people, if I don't participate or do anything, someone else will, someone who is maybe even better than I am. In psychology there is a study called bystander effect. It refers to "cases where  individuals do not offer any means of help in an emergency situation to the victim when other people are present." I think participation can be related to "offer means of help" to our social capital and civic engagement. A collective group of individuals: individuals make up the group. Without everyone's engagement the collective group won't even exist.