What will be the impact of this sudden and profound "global education" upon political dictatorships, isolated communities, coherent cultures, religious practices, etc.? As great universities of the world begin to offer degrees and knowledge modules via the Internet, will "lesser" universities be damaged or even forced out of business?
They can be found restoring historic structures, using interesting building materials, creating well-designed master-planned communities, funding coherent community spaces, advancing socially or environmentally just ideas, and much more.
Saving Syria's Christian community is coherent with Western strategic interests.
Mason usefully distinguishes between different levels and kinds of communities, though one can question his argument that the ideal of global community is coherent in principle and useful in practice (in my view, communities are particularistic in nature and presume an inside/outside distinction.
"One of the things that locals are very concerned about is that in Peckham you've got a very diverse yet strangely coherent community," says Mark Saunders, who is currently making a film "Bleacher on the Rye" detailing the community's response to the Gateway regeneration scheme.
And far from frustrating the development of a coherent community, that balance enhanced it.
From diversity, the ads assert, Coke molds a coherent community, bound together by shared experience and taste.
"If this video has done anything, it is to galvanise a tremendous, unified and coherent community voice in its defence.
Only the family-owned dailies in smaller, more remote cities with a more coherent community identity and with no debt burden are likely to survive.
There's no particular reason, they say, that grouping voters by geographic proximity ensures this coherent community any more than drawing lines according to any other metric.
