Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Exam week and Communitas
Communitas- the spirit of community; all are equal. What a phenomenon that this occurs without multiple years of time served to achieve this "spirit of community". This is because communitas does not come from a structured striving or formula of man to create this eternal and now supernatural thing, it's Beauty. Beauty brings about communitas, particularly in suffering. Take for instance the 1985 song "We are the world" USA for Africa a moment of communitas no doubt centered around the beauty that comes in music as well as the beauty in the alleviation of suffering, compassion. Exam week brings, unlike most weeks of the semester, communitas for all people are equally suffering and empathetic of where one another is at. It brings about a never suspected nearness to classmates, and in this coming together there is Beauty the atmosphere of the library and other knooks and crannies take on new shape and form they, come to life, they are seen, they are beautiful.
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