A commune or a cult would be better than this circus lol

  • emma@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.