AGGREGATORS

AGGREGATORS AND AGGREGATES Aggregate is a grouping of things, persons, ideas, etc. Aggregators are those who liaise aggregations, those whose efforts effect union. Aggregators are envied, mocked, persecuted, exiled, killed. There is grave danger in daring to consider aggregating. Yet, impulsively, men step forth into the breech to do so , repeatedly. Women aggregate too, usually in default of men, as a goad to men, as a challenge to the men, history has shown. So too have, do children, whether students or non-students, aggregated, as in street gangs and juvenile delinquents or as in SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee) in the old 1960s civil rights movement days. There are also rewards, tangible and intangible for aggregators, even as there are grave risks. Such rewards may partially explain why aggregators continually emerge. Then, again, rewards alone are not enough to explain the entire notion, the entire template of aggregation. Something else on the inside thrust outside, while that on the outside pulls unto itself that "metal" meant to aggregate upon, around, into it. We are born into aggregates called families, raised in aggregate churches, attended aggregate schools, work in aggregate work sites, live in aggregate communities, pay taxes and pledge allegiance to aggregate nations. Even now, the mere act of reading this article online is itself evidence of aggregation, as it appears on someone's page, on some entity's or company's particular domain within the infinitude of the electromagnetic spectrum. In short, we are already aggregated at birth, before birth, prior to any" beginning," by God's grace.