Community

A 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 and interaction in any number of 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 need for community

Since the dawn of civilization, humankind has progressed through a series of struggles against what is known today as the human condition. Blood, bone, tissue and lymph wrapped in a single vulnerable layer of skin is the human frame when we leave the womb. At that instant, we begin to feel the constant fifteen pounds per square inch of Earth's atmosphere on our ears. We remain in need of a continuous supply of air to breathe, water to drink, food to eat, and (depending on latitude and social timidity) clothes to wear. We get tired and have to sleep, preferably on something soft and dry. We must from time to time clean our skin and our teeth. We are continually attacked by microscopic creatures, bothered by insects and possibly bitten by beasts. We are subject to harm by falling or getting burned, cut, or bruised. Some of us are born with defects and diseases or get them later on. This is the condition, common to us all.

Related Topics:
Dawn of civilization - Humankind - Human condition - Blood - Bone - Tissue - Earth - Atmosphere - Air - Food - Clothes - Sleep

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