chicagodads

The community thread is the second series in a projected - and very open - three-part series on relationships that I’m planning on doing (the first was love; the next is on respect). I’ve yet to define or outline what community is but I wanted to throw this picture out there, even though - and partially because - in many ways it is the opposite of community, or at least what I think that community should be.

The White House.

Again, I don’t want to be political. Me saying that the Washington White House is not a community is not a throw-down on the Bush presidency. Nobody could make a community out of a brood of vipers, to be honest, no matter their intentions, philosophy, or management skills. Every single individual in the service of the president’s cabinet vies to get the ear of whichever man (up to this point) runs the ship. There’s more daggers in that single address than in all the soap operas and telenovelas combined. Not a community.

Yet, there are unmistakable alliances and identifications having to do with community within such a grouping. There are constant checks and balances, and each crazy corner needs the others for their own operations - whether or not they ever allow for that.

But recent events have made me think about what has been going on the last seven or so years there. I’ll share more later…

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