The Nauvoo Commuter blog is produced in Nauvoo, Illinois, in the Midwestern U.S. It behooves us to introduce our town.
Nauvoo was first settled by Mormon refugees, who bought the area from land speculators. They had come with the intent to build a utopian society. The community flourished for several years until economic competition with a jealous neighboring community led to religious persecution. The Mormons decided to leave. At gunpoint.
The city was then settled by European immigrants seeking a better life. A few years later, another utopian society settled the area. The Icarian movement from France developed a communal society here in Nauvoo.
In my line of work, I interact with business leaders, hedge fund managers, political technicians, and market traders around the world, and I hear a lot of discouragement. Nauvoo is an antidote representing idealism, the concept that a community can be formed to bring about some ideal society for which we yearn. That is our message to the world.
I can't see into Nauvoo's future, but of one thing I am sure. The world needs Nauvoo.
Nauvoo was first settled by Mormon refugees, who bought the area from land speculators. They had come with the intent to build a utopian society. The community flourished for several years until economic competition with a jealous neighboring community led to religious persecution. The Mormons decided to leave. At gunpoint.
The city was then settled by European immigrants seeking a better life. A few years later, another utopian society settled the area. The Icarian movement from France developed a communal society here in Nauvoo.
In my line of work, I interact with business leaders, hedge fund managers, political technicians, and market traders around the world, and I hear a lot of discouragement. Nauvoo is an antidote representing idealism, the concept that a community can be formed to bring about some ideal society for which we yearn. That is our message to the world.
I can't see into Nauvoo's future, but of one thing I am sure. The world needs Nauvoo.
3 comments:
What makes an ideal community and how is Nauvoo ideal?
What makes a community ideal is a topic for another time. I'm not sure Nauvoo is ideal, but it does stand for the concept that we should strive for the ideal.
If this was facebook, I would like it. I miss Nauvoo
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