What has happened to communes?~

Sounds like you'd be much better off living in a van and traveling, lol. Get together a few like-minded people, and you guys can travel in the van doing whatever you like to do.

 

Ya still gotta eat.

Ya still gotta have a place to call home.

Ya can't live in a van with your friends foreever, sooner or later the others will want to leave.

Everyone has thier own lives to live, you as well.

Sooner or later you need a carreer. Your parents won't keep supporrting you, nor will yourr friends.

Not saying any of that to be harsh, but it's very real. Years back I met a van full of kids living out of a van. I thought they were cool until I found them stealing from the store I was managing. Their attitude sucked at that point- "how are we supposed to afford gas?" "I'm hungry, if you were hungry you would do this, too." It's fun, yes. But just as it began it will soon end. Just the way it is.

 

So I finally got my little campground/hackerspacenproject rolling for a bit.

A few people came out to camp and said they were excited about the ideas but no one worked out. They were all too stuck in the false scarcity/consumer mindset and despite healing and supposedly feeling better than ever after living the way I live, they've all returned to capitalism, or living on the dole, or begging, and living out of their petroleum powered murder machines.

Logan5 is somewhat right about not being able to live in a van forever though. I got sick of the van and moved into a tent hammock about six moths ago. I don't even like going inside buildings anymore after being free from artificial environments for so long. I've completely quit pretty much every aspect of civilization except for internet and glasses and it feels great to be free of all of the distractions and crutches. I haven't had a job in over three years or used money at all in almost a year. We live in an environment of abundance once we realize what our real needs are versus what our wants that we've been indoctrinated into thinking are needs. Air, water, food, shelter, fire, and community are all a human needs to be happy and healthy. Anything beyond that is a distraction and likely an instrument of enslavement and environmental destruction.

I've decided to give up though. I've decided that I just don't care if humanity survives the next century so I'm going to go back to being selfish and supporting whatever slavery system I have to support to get me where Iwant to go. The DIY amphibious solar/pedal powered camper trike is about 1/4 of the way done and as soon as it rolls, I'm heading towards Uruguay. I'm planning on having as much fun as I can along the way and going about it by any means necessary. Sustainability, ethics, environmentalism, and activism be damned. I've wasted enough time on that crap and am going to ride this reality into the ground like the rental car everyone else seems to think it is. If no one else cares to exist sustainably and collaborate with their communities, and community is necessary for constructive change, why keep trying?


So anyway, what's happened to communes is humanity has been epigenetially devolved, through participation in the pile of slavery systems we call civilization, to a race of slaves that's dependent upon the very systems that are controlling and exploiting them and will end up driving our species to extinction in the near future.

Moral of the story. It's party time. Searching for peace and freedom is what death is for.

 

Sayin ain't doing
experience comes from doing ...as do lessons -ouch oops bash
everyone lives alone inside their head and decisions even when made together are always made alone and individually first and last

Being is just that

why not

thankfulness and laughter help us stay sane

Life IS an opportunity - and BeComes what we Make of it

Grow On - Enjoy


LOVE

 

Yup

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Bison-Soil-2-cu-yd-Tote-Premium-Organic-Biochar-BIO2Y/206113710?cm_mmc=shopping-_-googleads-_-pla-_-206113710&ci_sku=206113710&ci_gpa=pla&ci_src=17588969&gclid=COy7xriFxsUCFU08gQod1xEAug

 

That stuff costs HOW MUCH? No wonder nobody found El Dorado, the Indians spent the gold on biochar.

 

Not a dime once you know how to make it from wood chips.
Otherwise, prices may vary.

http://biocharindustries.com/#product_category=-1&order=date-desc&page=undefined

 

You just linked to a $900.00 bag of soil improvement?

 

And an image of a batch I made for $0 at one of the places I've visitede along the journeys who came to decide the effort "just wasn't worth it".

 

Another thing to consider while Hunting for the perfect Commune / Eco-Village is the evolution of the internet, it does seem there are more groups using Social Networking sites like Facebook to "spread word" and make connections with like-minded beings for their projects rather than rely on Outdated pages like "IC.org" where there is little if anything done to ensure these listings are kept up-to-date.

https://www.************/search/str/ecovillage/keywords_top