Friday, May 14, 2004

[noticed at TheyBlinked]

community need be programmed only in situations where people are not comfortable with their normal lives.

it is funny to me that we even have conversations about "structuring community." on the one hand because it is the predisposition of our species to dwell communally in one sense or another. on the other because the very act of talking about how to "grow" or "structure" community intimates both that we fundamentally lack it and have an excess of time and treasure to consider why. seldom does it occur to us that this margin and the life structured to create it may directly contribute to our lack.

this is not a cynical arm chair critique or even an effort in diagnosis/prescription: just thinking out loud.

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