COMMUNITY MATTERS:

As much as it is important to emphasize personal patterns of thought and behavior, we are hugely influenced by forces that come to us from society. Thinking about the patterns that have shaped culture in the past and our immersion in a new paradigm is necessary, and perhaps helpful, in thinking about why we feel the way we do and how we respond to broader cultural trends.

Think of moments from the past that appeal to you as having exemplified intellectual or artistic community and try and work out what the necessary conditions were - and what wasn’t really necessary. In the instance of the New York Jazz world, large crowds and national recognition simply did not exist in the first few decades.

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