Like everyone else, I've been real interested in doing a commune-style thing with some friends, kinda off-grid-ish, because "lil tribe in woods" is the ideal, right? And I still want it, but sometimes I wonder if we've been too permanently socially crippled to pull it off. 1/n
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And normie stuff like jobs and housing don't help, but my guess is there's also a ton of default, invisible orientations we have to "how we are supposed to be with others" that are incompatible with long-term tribe success, and we don't have good ways of identifying them. 6/6
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Israeli kibbutz movement is worth studying, I researched it for my conversion. They've changed a lot and "sold out" a lot after the 70s but survived decades before that
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Communal goods are under communal control, and that means internal politics. If the communal goods are substantial, the politics easily escalate well beyond the bonds of mere friendship or community spirit, and many people just leave when they don't get what they want.
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Possibly also: Everyone you know yearning for a tribe is mostly friends with people who have very high economic mobility. If you're not at a center that stably attracts and holds all those people, they will eventually want to leave for other reasons...
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consider divorce rates people want good but fail to plan for bad
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Tribes were never friends living together. They were related families living and working together. If you want friend-tribes, buy an apartment building, not a house.
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Reducing the size of my community while maintaining a healthy privacy and individual bubble has allowed me to feel more connected to the people in my life, without feeling obligated towards them.
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I'm convinced the key is build a village, not a group house. Group houses are lazy and force low-social people into thinking they are socializing because they see each other. Make commitments, do things, choose to be together. The village just lowers the cost of the choice.
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