On Community: Part two

Ok, I am back and wonderfully caffeinated. Having spent some time staring at the endless rain here in the jungle, a few thoughts have come to my mind regarding the endless stream of questions posed in the last entry.
Here are some things that have become apparent to me as truths:
1) I am not part of a community in Boone. Though I do have some shallow roots there, which may be deeper by comparison to most other students, they are not sufficient enough to be able to say that I am part of a community.
2) There is not a community in Boone in the first place. At least not a community of people dedicated to environmental and social sustainability.
3) This is a dangerous position to be in due to the number of impending economic, environmental and social crises that are headed our way if not currently unfolding.
4) If we, as citizens of Boone, want to be able to create a new, better, sustainable and just world, and to withstand the afore-mentioned crises, we must create a community of people dedicated to these tasks.
5) This community in and of itself could be a powerful threat to the evil forces of neoliberal capitalism and the state which supports it.
6) It is useful, as a humbling exercise, to compare Boone, NC to the communities of indigenous Mayans in the Zapatista movement. They, after all, are doing what we are not: creating a new world that negates neoliberal capitalism and fosters liberation and humanity.
7) In order to create such a community in Boone, students such as myself must stay in Boone. We must dedicate our lives to the task of creating and sustaining a community there. We must remember that the fact that we have the option to go somewhere else is a product of our privileged status, and that most other people in the world do not have such privileges. Capitalism, with its need to be ever expanding, has planted the idea in our head that there are always greener pastures, that there is always somewhere better we could be. We must get rid of this illusion and see Boone for what it is: a beautiful, abundant place teeming with life and resources, a place perfectly ripe for the building of a dignified, (dare I say) autonomous community.
8) I hope that we can have the humility and clarity to figure out what must be done to sow the seeds of such a community, for right now the road ahead looks quite long and treacherous.

your comments and critiques are strongly encouraged as always.
Much more later. Need more coffee.