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I don’t come anywhere near close to meeting the requirements for intentional communities. Chronic illness is a real bastard. I don’t need much and the quality of my life could so easily be improved by just a little help from others, but everyone - even intentional communities - is caught up in focusing on how much others can help them. What I can give is less tangible, and therefore dismissed.
I don’t want to abandon society but I do recognise we’d all be far better off if we lived in ways which were less isolating. Every person/family for themselves harms us all.
A huge problem is that most neighborhoods and houses aren’t facilitating community.
You don’t need a commune or a cult as OP was joking.
I live in a house where one of the apartments is used communally by all the other residents of the house and it changes so much. It doesn’t have a functioning bathroom so the landlords couldn’t give it up for rent. But it has a kitchen, a balcony etc.
I don’t come anywhere near close to meeting the requirements for intentional communities. Chronic illness is a real bastard. I don’t need much and the quality of my life could so easily be improved by just a little help from others, but everyone - even intentional communities - is caught up in focusing on how much others can help them. What I can give is less tangible, and therefore dismissed.
I don’t want to abandon society but I do recognise we’d all be far better off if we lived in ways which were less isolating. Every person/family for themselves harms us all.
A huge problem is that most neighborhoods and houses aren’t facilitating community. You don’t need a commune or a cult as OP was joking.
I live in a house where one of the apartments is used communally by all the other residents of the house and it changes so much. It doesn’t have a functioning bathroom so the landlords couldn’t give it up for rent. But it has a kitchen, a balcony etc.