I remember reading about how a lot of the communes people tried to create in the 60s ran in to a problem of anti-intellectualism...
If you have a ton of people living together for free on a limited patch of land that don't want to live ruled by money...
and you're telling everyone to just be positive, no one is allowed to have bad thoughts..
That just sounds like a circus show full of lazy people. It devolved in to a few hard workers supporting a lot of very lazy people in a place where there were no requirements for entry. There were costs in operating places like that and peoples living standards went really bad and everyone would just say "You're not being positive" lol.
Communes don't...really exist in their truest sense in the first world anymore. The ones that haven't failed require you to pay a large one time fee or just rent by whatever other system they have in place..they're not free spaces like the original intention was. The few left don't generally have large numbers of people because they either must not be all that great or they cost too much to get in to.
Some now even call themselves "intentional communities" wtf is that? We all pay to be around neighbors perpetually overjoyed with good intentions for each other? Weird. I think I'll pass that sounds very fake and a waste of time. I prefer practicing methods of understanding, not just expecting magic to unfold because everyone, no matter how dumb- has a forced smile on their face when they need to confront a forest fire.
If you have a ton of people living together for free on a limited patch of land that don't want to live ruled by money...
and you're telling everyone to just be positive, no one is allowed to have bad thoughts..
That just sounds like a circus show full of lazy people. It devolved in to a few hard workers supporting a lot of very lazy people in a place where there were no requirements for entry. There were costs in operating places like that and peoples living standards went really bad and everyone would just say "You're not being positive" lol.
Communes don't...really exist in their truest sense in the first world anymore. The ones that haven't failed require you to pay a large one time fee or just rent by whatever other system they have in place..they're not free spaces like the original intention was. The few left don't generally have large numbers of people because they either must not be all that great or they cost too much to get in to.
Some now even call themselves "intentional communities" wtf is that? We all pay to be around neighbors perpetually overjoyed with good intentions for each other? Weird. I think I'll pass that sounds very fake and a waste of time. I prefer practicing methods of understanding, not just expecting magic to unfold because everyone, no matter how dumb- has a forced smile on their face when they need to confront a forest fire.