Charles Creegans comments on community seem to me
apposite not only to the desire, implicit or explicit,
of each one of us for unconditional autonomy;
They seem apposite also to 
the issue recently raised here by Udo Goedens
about the appropriateness of the Internet
as a medium for communicating about Kierkegaard.

The awareness of self which arises from our
reflections on our experience
and the conscious cultivation of that awareness
tend to make us oblivious of the unconditional
dependence on community which is characteristic of
human nature. The processes of thought flow from
social interactions and are dependent on them.
Speech is a bond among individual in society.
The prophet crying in the wilderness 
is oblivious of the circumstance that
his words were molded by,
and are echos of social interaction
with other human beings.
The person reading or writing
to himself or for himself, ad se ipsum,
the secret diarist is an absurd figure,
an idiot in the etymologic sense of that word.
The person who claims divine inspiration
or direct apprehension of the Truth
must be similarly suspect.

Strangely, notwithstanding the increasingly large number
of human beings who read and write, not withstanding
the profusion of communications facilities,
the need for community becomes greater rather than less.
Lonely in the crowd
The Internet seems to have created a new communications
medium the limittaions of which are not yet apparent.

The need for a certain kind of community
has informed
The scholarly communities fill that need, but they don't
work all that well.
as anyone who has had a chance to observe them will confirm.
They depend upon exclusiveness
building walls to exclude strangers

These considerations are apposite to the study of Kierkegaard
who entertained ambivalent relationships
with the academic community,
traveling to Berlin to hear Schelling lecture
even while excoriating academicians;
no less ambivalent than the relationships
which he entertained with  the Church.
Indeed much could be learned from examining
Kierkegaards life and his writings in the social perspective.