community resilience
Community resilience is the trendy term for the virtue of mutual inaction, declaring that neighbors will share canned food while quietly hoping someone else steps forward. It focuses not on realistic preparation but on the pink-lipped promise of 'we'll be there for each other' plastered on posters and t-shirts. Municipalities and corporations believe that chanting the phrase at the end of a meeting automatically grants them safety, then rest easy with a stack of soporific pamphlets. Actual resource allocation is postponed indefinitely while the rituals of self-congratulation continue. In the end, community resilience often amounts to an empty show that vanishes like smoke once real danger strikes.