> On Friday 15 April 2005 06:08 pm, John Adams wrote:
>> It was the theory of the late seventies and early eighties that we'd
>> be able to build the new society within the shell of the old, blah
>> blah blah, by building co-ops. Turned out people liked their
>> organically certified food more than they liked their democracy and
>> their worker-controlled businesses.
>
> It was the theory of us hippies in the 60s and 70s that a self
> sufficient lifestyle on the land would help contribute to peace and
> social equality in the world. These theories are right. Our
> approach to it was lacking. We homesteaders found out that it was
> too hard for small families to make it on the land. But there were
> larger communities that did succeed and are succeeding like Twin Oaks
> in Virginia and other communities around the country and the world.
Yes--there are tiny communities in scattered locations representing a fraction of a percent of the people who tried this. They are little blemishes on an otherwise unbroken record of heartbreak, misery, and human waste from the mass delusions of the back-to-the-land movement. Typical hippie narcissistic stupidity of the anti-humane sort.
> What I see as neccessary is for all of us who have tried these
> alternatives of various forms to get together, discuss what we found
> to work and what didn't work and come up with new approaches.
I have some thoughts on this, beginning with: What do you do with people for whom four walls are four too many?
John A