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think of.. COMMUNITY (communitism?).

Communities are defined by cooperation and fair (within the boundaries of the community) competition. If there is no cooperation, there is no community. Whenever cooperation occurs, a community exists for the duration of the cooperation. Individuals in communities also compete - and the community defines "fair competition."

At the next level... communities cooperate and define fair competition for individual communities. However, communities are much more ruthless than individual living beings because they have no knowledge and no fear of death - they are not alive.

At the same time, the larger a community grows and the more power it gains, the more likely it is to survive. Communities of two individuals will cease to exist when either individual dies. Communities of three are inherently unstable, due to the polarities created by competition.

Communities develop a life of their own - even small communities. A married couple in battle, for example, is a domestic - a completely unpredictable situation that all police officers know can be dangerous. Individually, either member can be rational. As a community - they can become totally unpredictable.

Larger communities - like a government or a church - have many layers of communities of communities of communities and their behaviors are generally inexplicable to all members. We might rationalize their behaviors, but we do not understand them. Communism? Capitalism? Socialism? These are artificial concepts used to try and explain the behaviors of complex communities and community interactions.

to your health, tracy

Author: The Spirits of Life

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