This sort of exercise, both in thought and realization, is important for this generation of young people. Some of the ideas are silly and/or naive. But there

This sort of exercise, both in thought and realization, is important for this generation of young people. Some of the ideas are silly and/or naive. But there have been too few of these experiments proposed by the young, and even fewer attempted in real life, over the last couple decades. Utopian communities were part and parcel of 19th C America, and there was a flutter of activity around communes and intentional communities in the 1960s and 1970s. We have the infrastructure and technology nowadays to do better. The long term success rate today would probably still be low, but the value in the exercise is in the personal growth experience for the young themselves and the prototyping of new ideas, some of which migrate to the general culture. Lots of lessons learned are available from books written about these past communities to prevent making the same mistakes. Perhaps the risks are just too high these days for the young…