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The visit would have been around 2011. He had read about Arcosanti in the 70s I believe and was expecting much more vibrancy, much more activity, and especially
by avs733 9y ago
The visit would have been around 2011. He had read about Arcosanti in the 70s I believe and was expecting much more vibrancy, much more activity, and especially much more progress than had come to fruition in that time.
I think he came in with excitement and that was confronted by a couple people he met there who were fairly off putting which didn't help matters.
I still think it is a neat idea personally, and put it in league with things like Black Rock City/Burning man where I'm never gonna fault someone for going out and just fucking trying something...but the experience and his reaction (not the place) are still a bit of a joke in our family.
- Mediterraneo10 9y ago"He had read about Arcosanti in the 70s I believe and was expecting much more vibrancy, much more activity, and especially much more progress." That is rather how I felt after touring Auroville a few years ago. So much publicity on the project is from decades ago. You visit, and you find out the project was never completed, successive generations born there have split into disparate factions and there’s sometimes infighting or at least apathy about any common goal, and the surrounding city has boomed so much that the little intentional community in its midst seems like a quirky little cult instead of a guide to the future.