that's a real good and tough point: does society/community depend first of all on geography?

i am not sure.

what i was trying to convey -- and the issues are definitely intertwined -- was very well expressed by Todd in an interview afew translated:

Emmanuel Todd : The protectionist revolution, current affairs debates : Le Point - Elisabeth Lévy (translated by afew)

... implemented at a collective supranational level, free from any ethnic or State founding myth, would demonstrate that have moved up to a higher state of human consciousness and of historical development.

i don't know if i buy (or even understand) the concept of "cooperative protectionism" he was describing in this passage, but replace that with "society/community in general", and it describes very well what i was trying to get at.

Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.