There are three elements to a community. Money, Knowledge, and Social/Spiritual Connection. Every person has their own priorities and is primarily driven by one of these elements. To make a successful, sustainable community or institution all three must be represented and balanced within the entire structure of the community.
Each element develops its own structure based on the abilities of those most driven towards it. Those who are driven by money develop a hierarchy based on the ability to make and manage money. The same is true with knowledge and social/spiritual. There is a natural competitiveness between all three elements. The money driven believe that wealth itself is a display of knowledge and can create social/spiritual connection. The knowledge driven believe knowledge is wealth and knowledge can create social/spiritual connection. The socially/spiritually driven believe that community is wealth and knowledge.
Money and Knowledge are the most compatible, and this tends to create an imbalance. The social/spiritual are the most powerful, more than capable of fighting for their space and asserting their structure, but it is the newest of elements in our human evolution. As a result there is a wild roller coaster of feast and famine, peaks and troughs, for the social/spiritually minded. Easily going too far, feeling the pain created, and recoiling into a submissive state to recuperate.
Each element must develop and maintain its own vision, allowing it to adapt to the environment, and the balance of these three visions will manifest the Structure of God.
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