it's like. okay. on some level this shouldn't require so much contemplation. people should be able to directly create value for each other. directly grow food. directly build each other shelter. american civ structured to make many of these moves weirdly difficult if not illegal
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i think a lot about this fantasy of living in a small village and we can talk about the appeal of community etc. but currently i'm most drawn to the appeal of being able to directly do things that are directly valuable to the other villagers
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imagine living in like a small village where you help your neighbors out by fixing their fences or roofs or something occasionally
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really fucked up how insanely difficult it is to just build shelter. friend of mine who grew up in middle-of-nowhere newfoundland used to talk about how his uncle or whatever could just go out into the woods and chop down a tree and build a lil cabin. this is afaik illegal here?
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on the other hand "let's just make a commune where we farm together" apparently fails a lot because of interpersonal nonsense
okay, hence the next step, let's make a commune where we focus on interpersonal nonsense specifically
this apparently also fails a lot???
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really feeling my ignorance here. there's probably decades of historical attempts at this sort of thing i could be looking at and i just don't know about any of it
what keywords do i need here? intentional community? commune?
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hmm "the commune network in San Francisco during the late 60s and early 70s" yes seems relevant 🤔
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We tried. It was a disaster. youtu.be/WKcSOykgdgM
I can not recommend this movie enough. It explains so much of wheee we are today.
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from : "everything i want to do is illegal"
apparently a lot of wacky stuff going on with farming 🤔
alcoholcanbeagas.com/sites/acbag/fi
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vibing with this
"We are lacking in a kind of wealth our grandparents had, even when they were poor. We are more materially wealthy in the West than we have ever been, yet this wealth is unstable because it is impersonal and transactional."
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"We cannot properly engage in politics if we have a population with no real stake in the future. We must...give people a chance to build beautiful things of their own which they might take pride in and pass onto their children."
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strongly agree
universal basic income and stimulus checks won't make people dependent on the government, because people can use them as seed funding for community-driven food and shelter production that in turn make them *less* reliant on government in the future
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which
the government would *hate* that, you see
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I feel like this specifically is also a version of the American settler fantasy of being a yeoman farmer which is (genocidal presumption aside) no longer a scalable “solution”…
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