Relationships+Networks=Community

In an effort to try understand the other rationale so that I may one day be better prepared to develop a counter argument, I have had several conversations with the conservative camp that believes in "personal responsibility". Personal responsibility is an ideology in opposition to socialized support and programs. Personal responsibility ideology believes in personal choices over dependence on government and socialized programs. Does "personal responsibility" fit with Capra's definition of community? According to Capra a community is a pattern of interconnected networks or relationships. There are networks within networks within communities (Capra). Capra uses the building blocks of organisms (organs, cells, etc.) to demonstrate how several systems of network patterns work together to form a community. According to cybernetics a community can self-regulate and learn from its mistakes through feedback loops (Capra). We need cooperation, partnership, relationships and interdependence for self-regulation (Capra). According to Capra cooperation is more important to self-regulation that competition. Self-regulation could be seen as a spin on the conservative ideology "personal responsibility, but instead this is not focusing on the responsibility of the individual but instead the responsibility or self-regulation of a community. The conservative camps belief in fending for yourself as a means of self-regulation contradicts Capra's means of self-regulation. Self-regulation does not occur in a linear detached system, but instead of system of interdependent relationships, network patterns, feedback loops, and cooperation (Capra). Communities are also able to self-regulate and respond to disturbances through resiliency through diverse linkages, or many approaches to the same problem (Capra). In Capra's definition of community the conservative argument of personal responsibility in the end would not lead to responsibility or self-regulation because we need cooperation, connections, and multiple approaches to a problem to be prepared, resilient, and sustainable. The conservative "personal responsibility" would not fit into Capra's definition of responsibility or self-regulation. Fending for ourselves in isolation does not work. We need each other for sustainability.