India Advocacy Fellow printed in ChangeExchange, Vol. An ideal act of communication is a communion of sorts.
Communion is a state of sharing or exchanging the same set of thoughts, feelings and attitudes.
Communion happens within communities, and communion is the result of a voluntary and participatory process. Creativity, communication, and communities are the three major factors that make human beings distinct from the rest of the living species. Language and symbols are the binding force that impel an organic and dynamic interplay between human creativity, a primordial urge to communicate and the need for community living. Postmodern Communication Crisis One of the crises of the postmodern condition is the breakdown of the organic links between creativity, communication, and communities. Now, language and symbols have become subservient to the highly mechanized tools of exchange or communication.