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I have often wondered if it's possible to build a successful, large-scale community/commune that is secular and run by sane people who engage in minimal financi

I have often wondered if it's possible to build a successful, large-scale community/commune that is secular and run by sane people who engage in minimal financial thievery of their supporters. Think Wild Wild Country but without insane murderous narcissistic assholes at the helm. From a political perspective what they did was actually pretty amazing. The fact that the feds ultimately just asked them to leave the country rather than imprisoning them makes me suspect that the biggest impediment to building such a community may in fact be trying to do it underneath a bigger government.

TangoTrotFox 8y ago
Garden of Eden is a commune of people that grow their own food, use minimal electric, use water from a well, etc and then sell their produce and products online. They've faced some lovely treatment as well [1]. They were faced with a machine gun raid and day long detainment under the auspices of a drug warrant. No drugs were found. Following that they were raided by the city's Code Compliance Department who cut down and carted off various plants and 'accidentally' broke their irrigation lines with their trucks. [1] - https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/North-Texas-hippie-commune-sues-over-failed-SWAT-6431853.php https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/North...
astrodev 8y ago
Good luck getting people to follow someone who is not a narcissistic asshole ;-)