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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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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one way I think about this is about the “power levels” of the individuals in the network. There’s a collective power, and there’s the power of each individual. You can try to raise the bottom, or the top, or do more resonance. What are each person’s goals? Does the group have one
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Eg one of mine is to continually find new good people and link them into the graph. I kinda trust that the existing graph will figure out what to do with them, tho I could def be doing more to help with that too
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