This quote here summed up much of what I believe about living in America: I hope they are able to get this off the ground!
This quote here summed up much of what I believe about living in America:
"I have a sense that individuals in our society suffer great anomie, they feel abandoned and bereft of social contact and are lonely. It is unsatisfactory values which have been forced upon us which has lead to us living separately. This makes us more competitive when instead we should be showing more compassion to each other. Humans are social animals."
A very aptly timed article from the BBC, given the conversation that we've been having here recently. In many ways, this sounds like the dream. Take a smallish group of people, pool money & buy a...
A very aptly timed article from the BBC, given the conversation that we've been having here recently.
In many ways, this sounds like the dream. Take a smallish group of people, pool money & buy a space for everyone to live close together but not (figuratively) on top of each other, and consciously make an effort to retain the communal style of living that was common to tribes and villages across the centuries.
They're deliberately carving out a space, both literal and metaphorical, where a close and interwoven community can exist in the modern world. I hope it works, because they're going to be fighting a lot of factors that have moved us away from this style of living: changes in working patterns, increased mobility, fewer shared cultural touchstones, and just an overall societal shift away from "village" life.
I'm sure we have an idealised view of the type of community that was essentially forced upon people by low mobility in years and centuries past, but I do think that this self-selecting approach has potential as long as people are still willing to stick through the harder parts.
As a side note, the way the words "tribal" and "cohousing" as used in the article both paint different, mutually exclusive pictures for me compared to the reality of what's described. I can see how both could/would match, but neither have the connotation they're going for in my mind.
This quote here summed up much of what I believe about living in America:
I hope they are able to get this off the ground!
A very aptly timed article from the BBC, given the conversation that we've been having here recently.
In many ways, this sounds like the dream. Take a smallish group of people, pool money & buy a space for everyone to live close together but not (figuratively) on top of each other, and consciously make an effort to retain the communal style of living that was common to tribes and villages across the centuries.
They're deliberately carving out a space, both literal and metaphorical, where a close and interwoven community can exist in the modern world. I hope it works, because they're going to be fighting a lot of factors that have moved us away from this style of living: changes in working patterns, increased mobility, fewer shared cultural touchstones, and just an overall societal shift away from "village" life.
I'm sure we have an idealised view of the type of community that was essentially forced upon people by low mobility in years and centuries past, but I do think that this self-selecting approach has potential as long as people are still willing to stick through the harder parts.
As a side note, the way the words "tribal" and "cohousing" as used in the article both paint different, mutually exclusive pictures for me compared to the reality of what's described. I can see how both could/would match, but neither have the connotation they're going for in my mind.