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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: emitch@att.net, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] What works/ the hippies were left
  • Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 22:05:13 -0600


Yes, that's what I referred to as voluntary cooperation among private
individuals or families living in a village or community.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********

On 5/11/2007 at 11:58 AM E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote:

>I liked this so much that I continued thinking about it as I worked this
>morning. Have to add one point:
>
>Most, maybe all, tribes, villages, etc. have had, by mutual consent, some
>"common" places and activities for their collective benefit. Think
>lodges, town halls, churches, schools, barn raisings, fire departments.
>I've never been much of a student of anthropology or civics, but I think
>it would be interesting to know more about which collective activities
>worked, and which didn't work.
>
>E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
>www.hillcountrynatives.biz
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: TradingPostPaul
> To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:53 PM
> Subject: [Livingontheland] What works/ the hippies were left
>
>
>
> Reduced down to its essentials: what does *not* work is unrelated people
> working together to provide for their needs on common property and
>sharing
> in the proceeds. People just will not commit to such a communal
> arrangement. It's not a matter of culture but of human nature.
>
> What does work, and always has, is natural families and individuals
>living
> on their own property or space in close proximity to others and
>cooperating
> on a voluntary basis to meet their needs. It's called a village or
tribe.
> Societies have been organized this way for eons.
>
> It's not a choice between modern society's alienation and communal
>living.
> Neither is viable. People can group together in close proximity without
> making it a communal arrangement, and can cooperate and have
>specialization
> of labor. That will be needed far more in the future.
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net







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