Analysis Of The Book Walk Out, Walk On

The book Walk Out, Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now written by Margaret J. Wheatley and Deborah Frieze take us on what they call a “Learning Journey” to seven communities around the world. However, these communities are not the everyday average communities. These communities are made up of people who had “walk out” from their community, and “walk on” to establish their own. The belief is that the people who “walk out” feel as if they do not have the necessary resources, influences, and knowledge to thrive within the community. These restrictions then cause them to move out from said community. People who move out usually do not get help in terms of funding and resources from others. This however was not seen as an issue for them. They want to build a community free of all those things, and solve their problems together as a community, rather than with the influences of people with power. The purpose of this book is to show how these communities functions, and how people can use some ideas from these communities and apply within their own community.

The concept and theory that I think was prevalent throughout the whole book is that the dominate communities all have flaws. People feel oppress by these flaws and wants to escape it, thus resulted them wanting to start their own communities with the old values and beliefs. Simply speaking, the thesis the authors intended for this book is that, can the old ways of doing things be used in modern day communities?

The mean of witch the authors went about on collecting data is sort of like field research. For an example, they would go into areas with the most problems in the chosen community. Instead of offering to help and solve the p...

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...good job to bring us as close as we can to the same experience that they had without us physically being there. I especially like how in almost every community that they visited find the usefulness of the bicycle, rather if it’s the cycle yatra in India or bicibomba (bicycle-powered water pump). This is significant to me because something as simple as a bicycle can help improve a community. The book also provides realistic solutions to the challenges that the global community as a whole is facing. So we can literally apply what we learn and use it in our own community. Our individualism has taken over much of our lives, and our sense of community just isn’t there anymore; but the book suggest that if you don’t want to be oppress by your community due to the lack of it, there is always better alternative. I am glad that the types of community still exist today.