Sustainable anarchist 'communities'

\0xDynamite dreamingforward at gmail.com
Tue May 5 18:56:06 PDT 2020


These problems are all solved over at the wiki of appropedia.org.
Check the "global village", by yours truly.

On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 8:13 PM Zig the N.g <ziggerjoe at yandex.com> wrote:
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> Thank you again Cari.  Some thoughts:
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> For anything to last, there must be relevence or perhaps "reality", for the individual.
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> Fear is one reality, along with love, and survival, and joy and much more.
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> The survival imperative, gives rise to fear of the unknown (such as a virus) as well as to action.
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> Some actions are more grounded in reality than others.
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> One foundation of sustainable anarchist communities, or families, or individuals, is food and water.
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> Sustaining ones body is a fundamental to survival.
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> So too is protection from hail storms, and extremes of heat and cold, thus the need for some form of shelter, be it a bridge, or a mansion.
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> Many clamour for trappings (the mansions, cars etc) to Keep up with Jones's, and without sufficient thought, enslave themselves for decades to usurious banks.
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> Since abundance is an engineering problem, wisdom might decree cooperation with fellow humans to manifest abundance, without the enslavement of decades of usurious interest payments.  Example - a barn raising, credit cooperatives (before they get bought out by a bank), food growing cooperatives, barter.
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> Abundance is "merely" an engineering problem... we should work together to uplift, not enslave.
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> For something to be real to the individual, pathways of action must be cognized, and many also require social validation/reinforcement (thus, pathetic virtue signalling).
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> Trailblazers or "pioneers" (e.g. RMS) do not need social validation.
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