Tocqueville Tom quotes Alexis de Tocqueville to describe Ryze and social society of group formation:
Americans, of all ages, of all stations in life, and all types of dispositions are forever forming associations. They are not only commercial or industrial associations in which they all take part but others of a thousand different types -- relgions, moral, serious, futile, very general and very minute... Nothing, in my view, deserves more attention that the intellectual and moral associations in America.
(Tocqueville - from his 1830's "Democracy in America")
Tocqueville's point resonates today, not just in our increased understanding of social networks, but if there were Optimist Clubs around the world we may have a little more peace.
Tom also posted on Geocaching a few days before I did (no I didn't plagerize).
4:48:50 PM 
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