3/23/2005

We all thought just alike, sort of

Working to establish a definition of community, we move from looking at the building blocks of its structure as physcal entities within an entity, and the general patterned appearance of that super-entity, to describing how mentality works as an individual moves toward community, and then, how a group-mentality works within community. This platform, as a subsidiary of the array being uncovered here, gives us the vantage of turning from the dominating focus on physicality, toward that more nebulous effect of living we call thought process. For the purposes of this sub-section we will separate inspiration as spirit for the next essay and deal, as exclusively as the subject will allow, with the effect of the physical upon the bio-chemistry regimen of thought. Not to be overly technical then, bio-chemistry will be described as it can be observed from accomplishments along a continuum from inception to nexus for manifestation of community accouterment(s).
Awareness, trying not to be deceptive when I say "Simply put", is a necessary prequel to all other thinking. The degree and scope of our awareness is always a result of the effect of stimuli involving the senses and it is often factored through discipline. Discipline, by definition, indicates a dependance upon tradition. Tradition must, wrongly or rightly, arrange ideas or objects according to their potential appropriateness and detriment to success. Success being reliant upon spirit will be investigated at a later writing. Here, suffice to say that success must evidence itself in birth, growth, and regeneration.
In a social entity, the tradition of communication is one of the ways in which awareness moves toward ubiquity. The tradition of communication manifests itself as a language which is dependent upon voice, common morphology, geography and experience and observed but uniquely endowed, desirable or undesirable, conditions upon individuals or groups within the group with needs. This grouping of increasingly diverse constituents, partly through language, then develops, via consensus and time, a system of responses to stimuli which, as a broadly accepted practice, becomes culture(succession) or extinct(failure).
Consensus springs from authoritative agreements that something either belongs or does not belong as a part of the formulation of the community. Consensus is then a political tool whereby a community with wants moves through awareness, communication, and agreement toward regeneration.

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