Romantic "Nature" pervades the arts just about the time every living thing starts to be wiped off the face of the earth...and everything becomes a "community" at the point where no community whatsoever is allowed to exist. To day "community" means nothing more than "special interest" with an aura of nostalgia.
I personally belong to the tango community, the belly dance community, the Bret Harte Middle School community, the ballet community, and the Sun community. Translation: I sit in front of the computer all day and type. Sometimes I go dance or help at my daughter's school.
Joanna
Dwayne Monroe wrote:
>Doug:
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>["Community" is]...a mush word. It means whatever one
>wants it to mean. There's the business community, the
>Phish community, the economics community, you name it.
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>Hell, there's even an "intelligence community" which,
>in its website manifestation, comes complete with
>music your 14 year old cousin who's 'in a band' cooked
>up, beauty shots of fighter jets, oil refineries, iris
>scanned eyes and resolute eagles.
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>We're all safer now: the IC (that's Intelligence
>Community to you newbies) is tirelessly on the job.
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><http://www.intelligence.gov/>
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