A spell has been cast on Hot Springs Village. I would call
it a corporate spell. The transforming of a community to a business. The
promises of riches and success thru building and control. A Board of Corporate Directors
rather than a council elected to govern us. A convoluted, complicated, vote on
the articles and declarations that govern us. Most of these proposed changes
will seemingly move the corporation forward, making profit and value our main
goals. Diminishing elected governance. And community.
Our goals should be to make life more enriching, more
engaging, and more enjoyable. This corporate spell can be broken when “we” the
people, begin to decide our own direction rather than sitting idly by, allowing
management, the directors, and outsiders to dictate our future.
We can break this spell by using our money and our time to
educate one another about aspects of community that we may have forgotten.
About looking not only at external aspects of community that can make our lives
happier, but internal emotions, feelings, thoughts, expectations, that we have
towards ourselves, our families, our neighbors, and our community as a whole.
We need involvement. Do we want a better community? Do you/I
have the spirit and determination to make Hot Springs Village a place we can
all be proud of and want to be a part of? Lakes and golf courses and natural
beauty do not a community make. If we
can muster up enough participation, we can break this spell. I don’t think any
of us think corporation, profit, and value should be our primary goals. I don’t
believe that is why any of us moved here. The value of our homes is secondary
to the value we would receive by a community spirited by the common good.
Directed by us.
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