The third stage of commitment to a community involves…
Page 274. The third stage of commitment to a community involves betting a technology for gathering. It means coming up with a method to bring people together and nudge them towards intimacy and trust.
— from Friends, Community & Society (Relationships/Community/Society) · Second Mountain by David Brooks
In the book
The strongest of them are thick — built around a shared moral cause, treating their members not as resources to be used but as fellow travelers on a common mission, with the relationships themselves set at the very center of the enterprise. You build that kind of community on purpose: by holding conversations that dwell on possibilities rather than problems — what could we make together, what talents here have gone unused; by giving it a dependable way of gathering, a regular method that reliably brings people together; and by binding it with the smallest shared rituals, the way even a pot of soup, dressed in a little ceremony, can manufacture belonging. The bonds themselves grow the slow way, one small contact at a time. — Friends, Community & Society (Relationships/Community/Society)