Cheap Web Hosting - Community analyzer guide - community
is an amalgamation of living things that share an environment. The individual
living beings can be plant or animal; any species; any size. What characterizes
a community is sharing interaction in many ways. In human communities, intent,
belief, resources, preferences, needs and a multitude of other conditions may be
present and common, affecting the degree of adhesion within the mixture, but the
definitive driver of community is that all individual subjects in the mix have
something in common. This is even true in biological communities.
The context of community
From the days of the hunter-gatherer culture, individual humans have learned
that there is strength in numbers and that sharing work and resources can be a
good thing. The Latin root munus or gift, brings into the meaning of community
the aspect of giving of one's self to others. Related etymology for munere
expands the meaning to included something prized, precious and worth defending.
It is the same root as used for the word munitions (defences). Sharing in this
"common defence" incorporates a balance between self-interest and
shared-interests within and among members of a group and is a crucial factor in
community formation. When enough participants in a group develop an attitude of
caring for the well-being of the whole, or the common good, the prospect of
community is present.
Whatever drives people to cooperate and collaborate in the first place, is not
quite as important in the context of community as what makes them continue to
associate. Resilient connections between and among people are what is important
in the formation of viable communities. Successful efforts by a mix of
participants tend to attract the attention of other less connected individuals
who may seek to join the group that is succeeding. This tendency, akin to herd
behavior in animals, is called Self-organization.
Over time, some parts of humanity have progressed steadily toward more complex
forms of organization and control. Hunter/gatherer tribes settled around
seasonal foodstocks to become agrarian villages. Villages grew to become towns
and cities. Cities turned into city-states and nation-states. The fact that
commerce, industry, government and human institutions become ever larger and
more complex suggests that humans, particularly those who are conversant with
the rules that drive these complexes are themselves driven toward aggregation,
amalgamation, and consolidation. When this increase in social capital reaches
critical mass, innovations in social networks can begin to work toward a higher
context through an inescapable cultural awareness of others. This phenomenon is
generally called the emergence of collective consciousness.
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