The document discusses how community is important for preventing people from "growing old inside". It quotes Robert McAfee Brown saying the only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people and that community gives companionship and relieves people of feeling indispensable. It also quotes J Robert Oppenheimer saying an open society with free access to knowledge and association of people can create a technological world that is also a human community. It concludes with a Margaret Mead quote about how small groups of committed people can change the world.