blog 2 (10-19-11)

The idea of community is essential in order to sustain a living environment. After creating an "imaginary" environment I think it was more than simply a civilization, it was more of a community. To begin, the people that come before the current generation of people in a community are useful. They set the tone and supply things for future generations, which is one great aspect of community. Also, without working with one another, not nearly as much would be as organized and efficient. With bare necessities as all you have to live, you need to rely on one another for support. By definition, a community is a group of any size who share a similar belief, or rather have anything in common. An ecosystem by scientific definition is living and non living things interacting. These two definitions combined, I think, make up a community. Like the type of community that we invented in class. The biotic factors, those who are living, use the abiotic factors, non living, to sustain each other. The humans living in the community eat the animals, and use the soil, dirt, trees, leaves, water, etc. Without the knives and tools we have today, the citizens of the community needed each other to complete tasks and get things done. To prepare a meal required several people, therefor the idea of community came into play. Some people would create tools, then others would work to hunt the animals, and others would start preparing a fire and boiling water- each person added something different to the job. A community is more than a civilization because a civilization is a particulate type of society and/or it is a broad cultural pattern in a specific area (source of definitions, http://bit.ly/90QFJh)- this does not imply one another enhancing or benefiting each other. I think that in future generations the idea of community will play a role in every day life, just like it has in the past.