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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my approach is to start with “let’s build psychological shelter”, ie make friends. Once you have that you can start puttering with makeshift things that sort of work as proxy. Host dinner parties... curse u covid
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psychological shelter! yes!
and/but i feel like i already have enough friends that i'm ready to take my friend network for a test drive to see what it can really do 😅
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can make it work, but it needs thought and effort and people who can trust each other to openly communicate; an idea and energy isn't enough on its own
a lot of queer houses fail too, but we did well (despite all of us being neurodiverse and/or traumatized) and are doing well
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it's weird but I think is right -- making a company solves a bunch of zoning and immigration issues if you were to try to get something bigger off the ground
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Lol, yes: "Therafields: The Rise and Fall of Lea Hindley-Smith's Psychoanalytic Commune"
ecwpress.com/products/thera
(Probably also of interest to )
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psychoanalytic commune! in toronto! the more things change the more they stay the same huh 😅
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