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7) -Mutual-aid in psychological ‘unfucking’ damage which isinevitably accumulated -Commitment and responsibility paired with support and care -Truthful emotional expression and engaging in productive conflict -Spiritual & personal development broadly

8) Many people were interested in long term civilizational health but pretty much everyone gravitated towards getting something to small to work, or at sink our teeth into as an experiment before tackling the 30/150/X levels of scale.

7) Most visions fell into one of two buckets A - Commune style living (large variations in terms of interconnected/dependence) B - Long term ritual groups (accountability, spirituality, growth, etc..) (Good example: https://medium.com/things-ive-written/the-elephants-182870501589 …)

8) The concept of ‘friend dating’ (@QiaochuYuan), the idea of getting to know someone well enough to figure out if you’d like to make longer term commitments with each other came up and immediately resonated.

9) The group now has a concrete hike planned explicitly for community development friend dating, with plans for a train trip to visit some of those who joined us virtually. We also have a ritual group in the works, and will have more field studies/readings.

10) The biggest issue we didn’t have great ideas on where age diversity, how to find longer term mentors with higher maturity), and have sanity checks from outside the group for inter-group dynamics. Not-so-secret plan is to trick @Meaningness into being a tribal elder

Are you networking with @Malcolm_Ocean & @SarahAMcManus ? Their tribal elder Jean Robertson has much to offer

I haven't, although I know @utotranslucence is a mutual friend of @Malcolm_Ocean. Have not met @SarahAMcManus but it looks like we have many similar influences.