Where do you live? Each night over 7 billion people on planet earth call some place their home, where they rest their head and get a few hours sleep. Human beings invariably live in relatively close confines with other folks, and over the years the idea of a local “block club” has evolved in many areas. Research and experience tells us that these Block Clubs invariably work for the benefit of the local community, resulting in a local Captain looking out for the local residents, and perhaps a Block Club Party once a year. The Block Club acts as a local “safety net”, allowing the folks on the block to work together for the betterment of the community. Imagine if our world was made up of a series of block clubs which are implemented by a system of multi level blocks, villages, districts and then by governmental units designed to cover each and every neighborhood. While this is a grand vision, the use of the “virtual world” on computers, the internet (world wide web) and other technology allows us to relatively easily create the system and to create the Block Club Captain virtually as well.
An active community minded person could take on a District and start to “divvy” it up into the Blocks using a google map to help understand where people live, then enlist folks to become captains on their blocks and then implement the minimum duties of reaching out to the block by communicating and doing a local census of the residents. By enlisting dog walkers or others who get out of their house and walk about, there can be a relatively constant contact between the residents and the Block Club to create a sense of community and even security while providing other avenues of activity, even economic activities like finding jobs for those who need work, or some local cottage industries. Thus the vision of local but connected Block Club System begins to unfold.