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Let’s begin by taking a long view on the word ‘community’ and some related terms. Here’s a cosmic cluster… perhaps a ‘community’ of stars. Are clusters community? Perhaps not. Photo credit: http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?&t=25161
From the infinitely great to the very, very small. Is a cluster of cells a ‘community’? Perhaps not as well. But I hope you’re already beginning to think more deeply about the concept of community and communication between organisms. http://talk-technology.blogspot.com/2012/01/biologists-replicate-key-evolutionary.html
This aspen tree cluster is very interesting. The trees on the surface appear to be separate organisms, but in truth, everything you see here and for many miles around is connected by a single tree root system. Is it a single plant? Many plants sharing a survival resource system? A ‘community’ of organisms perhaps able to survive on their own, but ‘choosing’ to connect – ‘choosing’ to be interdependent In order to truly thrive?
Photo credit: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/07/ancient-humans-lived-in-norfolk-up-to-950000-years-ago/1 And http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jwh/16.4/beaujard.html
Communities do not function in isolation. Strong communities can be formed and last for years – or even spark after decades of a shared experience. But they operate within context of the event. Other events, before and after the instigating event will affect the strength of the bond, the breadth of reach and the power of the community. Ie: PS 167 6 th grade class. Concept credit: http://jrichardstevens.com/articles/wilson_peterson.pdf
Communities do not function in isolation. Strong communities can be formed and last for years – or even spark after decades of a shared experience. But they operate within context of the event. Other events, before and after the instigating event will affect the strength of the bond, the breadth of reach and the power of the community. Ie: PS 167 6 th grade class. Concept credit: http://jrichardstevens.com/articles/wilson_peterson.pdf
So far, no entity trumps the others: Realists claim the State holds the trump card. Marxists claim that Capital is in the driver’s seat http://www.freakingnews.com/Trump-Card-Pics-65506.asp
History shows ultimately it is the People who are in charge and new connective technologies only increase their power and ability to organize collective action “ Panarchy: Governance in the Network Age ” - Paul Hartzog Photo credit: http://thepersonalnavigator.blogspot.com/2011/06/arab-spring-and-what-came-before.html