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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on a side note, it's kind of sad that we need a special term ("intentional community") to designate communities with a high degree of social cohesion & teamwork
the fact that this is the exception rather than the norm... kinda fucked up when you think about it
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everything bordering this topic is fucked up it's a whole-ass thing!