there is no future for me because I will just continue to keep getting covid and have cumulative skin scarring, kidney damage, hair loss, etc et al.
At the same time, I have the physical ability to work and live a normal life (in theory), if covid weren't around.
I would rather just grow produce and live alone. I've already grown a bunch of things by hand, I think I could seriously do it on a scale at least large enough to feed myself.
This is also what I want, in all seriousness. I've seen a lot of other people with long covid or other disability express support for this idea on Twitter too. Yesterday I saw one person finally announce that they're taking concrete steps to start one but they're in Canada, and I'm not.
This is the string of replies I saw yesterday. You see a lot of people jump on it whenever someone mentions the idea and the energy seems genuine, so I'm really hopeful we'll see more of it.
In the 60s in the United States, a hierarchy almost always happened and the leadership almost always took advantage of their credulous followers, both leaving them dependent (and if it collapsed, stranded) and often creeping on them as well.
I'm not saying communes are always doomed to failure, but :grillman: in their youth that eventually became corporate climbing psychopaths sort of learned how to exploit people in their own amateur communes first.
Make sure all leadership is distributed and compartmentalized by category (leadership is many things, not one thing), or at least fully recallable.
Don't require that the commune encompass all of a person's life. Start with just a couple essentials and build up instead of trying to implement everything new all at once.
For goodness' sake locate it close to some kind of urban area. Social claustrophobia is a thing, plus it's healthy to have people relating to others outside, plus you want an avenue to bring people in.
I'm serious about the idea, because I both:
there is no future for me because I will just continue to keep getting covid and have cumulative skin scarring, kidney damage, hair loss, etc et al.
At the same time, I have the physical ability to work and live a normal life (in theory), if covid weren't around.
I would rather just grow produce and live alone. I've already grown a bunch of things by hand, I think I could seriously do it on a scale at least large enough to feed myself.
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This is also what I want, in all seriousness. I've seen a lot of other people with long covid or other disability express support for this idea on Twitter too. Yesterday I saw one person finally announce that they're taking concrete steps to start one but they're in Canada, and I'm not.
do you have a link?
This is the string of replies I saw yesterday. You see a lot of people jump on it whenever someone mentions the idea and the energy seems genuine, so I'm really hopeful we'll see more of it.
If you can make a non-:sus-deep: commune, more power to you, comrade. :sankara-salute:
What exactly is sus about the communes? I know the ones in the 60s often fell apart due to romantic/sexual stuff.
In the 60s in the United States, a hierarchy almost always happened and the leadership almost always took advantage of their credulous followers, both leaving them dependent (and if it collapsed, stranded) and often creeping on them as well.
I'm not saying communes are always doomed to failure, but :grillman: in their youth that eventually became corporate climbing psychopaths sort of learned how to exploit people in their own amateur communes first.
The solutions to this are pretty straightforward.
Make sure all leadership is distributed and compartmentalized by category (leadership is many things, not one thing), or at least fully recallable.
Don't require that the commune encompass all of a person's life. Start with just a couple essentials and build up instead of trying to implement everything new all at once.
For goodness' sake locate it close to some kind of urban area. Social claustrophobia is a thing, plus it's healthy to have people relating to others outside, plus you want an avenue to bring people in.