ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a global community organized around such a concept: regardless of languages, religions, traditions, and preexistent territorialities of surroundings, those born to a calendar year form a global community. The institutionalization of Age communities would offer a rich backdrop of collective events, narratives, and symbols, one that is comparable to contemporary frames. Reconceiving community through Age has a direct intimation toward the concepts of cosmopolitanism and creolization. Age communities would likely function in a complementary fashion to those concepts as our self-perceptions and registers of identity would expand and develop. Creolization should be perceived as a perpetual process that all people engage throughout the life span. Cultural identity (and thus material culture, or the codifications of cultural identity) would be at the center of any utopian reorientation of the human experience. Exceptionalisms might emerge in Age-based societies, and the nature of the inter-period power could provide provocative and compelling topics of study.
