Are meetings always such a terrible thing?

For the most part, people always seem talk about how there are TOO many meetings in their workplace.  My colleague John Justice even wrote about a "meeting intervention" a few months ago to solve the meeting insanity problem.

However, are meetings always a bad thing?  It occured to me the other day that if I could limit the number of meetings I had in a week to approximately 3-4 it would be the perfect and ideal number of meetings.  Meetings bring people together.  It also breaks up your day a little bit so you aren't just sitting there working and working without any contact with others in your office/company.  Not having any meetings at all would make one feel really isolated.  At least that's what I think...