Becoming Social

Social interaction is a necessary condition of community by being the action through which life is replicated and in which life is experienced, within varying degrees of social integration. To avoid the argument of chicken or egg as regards individual or society in order
to focus on the conditions and conditioning we know exist, seems the direct tact in developing a more cohesive understanding of the physical relationship of individual and society.
The physical parameters of social life can easily be delineated as non-human Geography, Demography of more than one, and Pathways of communication. Admittedly this limits our scope to that which is quantifiable by the five senses and generally verifiable through test and sample.
The reason for characterizing Geography here as non human is to avoid the confusion which might follow from the etymologically studied application of the word which reveals its true characteristic as an ‘overriding through sifter’, an umbrella word which also has more specific meanings and exclusionary applications. So to use the more exclusionary application and specifically meaning those attributes in the physical condition of life which, although they may include aspects modified by man, do not here include the writings and other recorded musings of men other than as they have been manifested directly and substantially on the canvass we often refer to as Mother Nature. In other words the section of the list concerning the needs in life as individuals become social includes human earth writings larger than Rushmore or Stone Mountain, and perhaps larger than Aswan Dam and the Dust Bowl and smog. An inclusive but not comprehensive rendering of the list: Astronomy, Topography, Meteorology and Geology seems fairly complete and at least example enough to indicate the area of community influence which is underlying all, though in many respects, especially as ‘the world grows smaller’ diminishing in its obvious direct influence but without which there is void.

More on Demographics of more than one, and Pathways of communication
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