#intentional communities

[the-hippie-home]

Here is a link to intentional communities.

Foundation for Intentional Community

Intentional Communities include ecovillages, cohousing, community land trusts, communes, co-ops, coliving, and housing cooperatives.

[dailyanarchistposts]

Waiting With The Coffins Under Heaven

The AAA is not a strand of Posadism and does not share their helpless hopes of communistic Alien salvation or global collapse. Their yearning is the same as the pious Christians, waiting for Christ’s return and direction to a better place in a better time. The lathe of heaven does not exist. It must be built.

Nor does the AAA urge a resignation to one’s docile fate on this planet. However much it hurts to hope for the impossible, to imagine a future we don’t believe in (the Earth being saved, Global revolution, etc.), what matters is the strength we feel every time we don’t bow our heads, every time we destroy the false idols of civilization, every time our eyes meet those of our comrades, every time that our hands set fire to the symbols of Power. In those moments we don’t ask ourselves: ‘Will we win? Will we lose?’ In those moments we just fight. Even if we have no future on this planet, we can still find life on it today. One does not have to return to sleep after the alarm clock rings.

Most importantly, we are not advocating a definitive plan for leaving this planet or for what ought to be done in space. It is left to the self-determination of individuals and unions to decide what is appropriate and ideal for them. The accent is placed not on the content of a choice proposed, but the fact of choosing. Thus, the AAA decision is a decision to decide no longer (that is, the free activity of space without geography would be betrayed if it is subordinated to some conception beforehand.)

As I could sit here and lament about Stanford Toruses, O’Neill Cylinders, and my frothy daydreams of surgically implanting bonsai trees into lungs and dining at souvlaki space stations, but why burden this manuscript with frivolities? Better to go out without constraint later, when day is done, to perfect the design – grown greater in the uncertain twilight of mere dream – in that inward moment that turns upon itself, yet never repeats itself. The AAA is less of an organization than it is a network of individuals and unions cooperatively working toward a defined beginning – leaving this planet. All that can come from the AAA are tools, not answers.

Because as much as this reads as a manifesto, it isn’t one. It is an invitation.

I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon…

Astronauts of all determinations, unite! We have a world to lose, but a universe to gain!

[1] While it is true that the hyperbolic statement of capitalism’s totality ignores the areas of the world unaccosted by its imperialistic desires and the resignation of America to alleged patriots is ignorant of indigenous views, I maintain that one’s theories must be about their real life. I do not aim to provide a comprehensive and impervious blueprint for the AAA. A diverse range of voices is necessary to make the AAA the successful network it could be. Thus, if there is something I left out, that I am mistaken, or there is a correction to be made – write it yourself. The purpose of the AAA is to allow space [pun unintentional] for individuals and affinity groups to act with unrestrained ferocity against systems of domination, while still being connected to a network of people who are interested in similar ideas and who can act in solidarity with each others’ struggles.

[communipuppity]

I'm gonna be trying out an intentional community in upstate New York for a week so I might not be able to talk much!  I hope it works out; I'll see yall later!!  :D

(I queued some posts though X3 )

[vacilantom]

Starting in the late 1960s, there was a lot of communal activity in the Ozarks. What few people may be aware of is that these communities were formed one of three reasons: 1) getting back to the land (sustainability & self sufficiency), 2) feminism (gender equity & freedom to express sexual orientation), and 3) religion.

[dailyanarchistposts]

Always Falling

Life on this planet is unsatisfactory. Yet we are not resigned to it. We refuse to be fooled. We fear nothing: being misunderstood, being criticized, being labelled ‘jokers’ or ‘insane’, suffering, life or death – nothing. We are neither dreamers nor idealists nor unrealistic… The AAA is an attitude of reaction, defiance, and distrust. A distrust of the illusory philosophies at the level of the naïve, a distrust of unctuous and sonorous morals…

No galaxy is obscure… So as not to be overloaded with rhetoric or cloying sincerity, the astronaut’s message is no less a song in which emotion’s modesty dismisses fine transports.

When a spider flings itself from a fixed point down into its consequences, it continually sees before it an empty space in which it can find no foothold, however much it stretches. And yet, it finds corners and crevices to build its place of rest, its source of nourishment. So it is with the AAA; before us is continually an empty space, and we are propelled by the conditions that lie behind us. What is going to happen? What will the future bring? I do not know, I offer no presentiment.

Those who consider our goals impossible to achieve will necessarily find our methods impossible to think. Trapped in the false permanency and ahistoricism of the spectacle, these “realistic” pro-revolutionaries are quick to assure our naivety and imploring failure. But why not fail?

Is the guarantee of dying from boredom recourse from the risk of dying from spaghettification?

Perhaps knowing there is no future is our greatest freedom.

[dailyanarchistposts]

Closed Doors Brings Open Minds

Life on this planet being, at best, an utter bore and, at worst, entirely grotesque — there remains to open-minded, irresponsible, thrill-seeking pro-revolutionaries only to disregard the government, build our own spaceships, and establish outer-space autonomous communities.

The world of Tomorrowland is already yesterday with the totality of capitalism complete. If the socialistic alternatives couldn’t defeat the capitalist system in its earliest stages, what hope is there in the present? Or worse, how much longer must one wait for the material conditions for a revolution to be appropriate? Accepting the existing order in one way or another is absurd. What is needed is an alternative to the alternative. A program that begins with the rejection of the spectacle’s permanence and holds no definitive end. An alternative that yields to individualist self-determination in place of concessions to reactionaries and counter-revolutionaries. The only alternative possible: autonomous astronauts.

“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism,” so says some benign theorist. But! We have no need to imagine either if we leave this planet. Let the capitalists fret over their sacred private property. Let the Earth cowards cling to their faith of monetary riches. Let these Terran revelers keep their third world, third rate, third class slum known as “America.” They can have this wretched heap they are so fond of, their patriotic submission. They can stay behind and suffocate on the noxious fumes of pollution while battling yet another carnivorous disease. Let them enjoy their skies cluttered by ugly fucking buildings and their repugnant light pollution that asphyxiates the night. Such archaisms are of no use to us. We won’t even give a minute of our life in the hope that the multitude will suddenly become aware and take off! If the gravitationally oppressed are not ready to raise the launchpad, this is a problem of the gravitationally oppressed.[1] Let us begin by detailing why we have abandoned the socialist alternative on Earth.

Assuming even a poor understanding of dialectics, with capitalism serving as the thesis and the socialistic tree as the antithesis — the synthesis is always a reinforced spirit of capitalism. Perhaps in some instances the abuses of the capitalist system against the working class lessen, but overall, the socialist and communist antitheses only serve as mere corrections and additives to the initial thesis of capitalism. Nothing truly changes. Not even in what you feel. In our hearts, we all know Earth will not be saved. Every revolt is cut off from its mode of success in advance. The empire squats solidly upon its own immunity! However, this does not mean the proposed systems in space will necessarily fail. What will a socialistic community look like without imperialism imposing on self-determination? What will anarchistic communities look like when freed of the threat of state violence? What objectives, what plans, what lives, what adventures are there when the oppressions are abandoned and we float away from the world; not disabled by disillusionment, but unburdened by it? No gods, no masters, no gravity – no problem!

[communipuppity]

Tolerance: a key to success?

I think this is one of the keys to success in an ancom intentional community (or any intentional community! but it'd be embarrassing if ancoms didn't do it tbh XD )

Don't get hung up on particular solutions / lifestyles; don't impose them on others; be tolerant!!

I don't know how many intentional communities fall into this trap: They're made by people who are extremely passionate about finding the solutions to save the world,

But while revolutionary and super effective, that mindset often leads to getting fixated on a particular solution you're super passionate about.

It's great to be passionate!  Just also be respectful of others who have different lifestyles and solutions!

For a concrete example, Windward was absolutely convinced that converting biomass to methanol and running combustion engines with it was the answer.  So much so that they were antagonistic to people using solar panels—even if people paid for it themselves!

Or for another (more horrifying) example, some people think that certain sexual practices (like community orgies or freelove) are the only/best way to show love and support to sad or lonely or needy people.  Case in point: https://community-ark-project-innocence.blogspot.com/2018/07/part-2-community-orgy-foundational.html "If someone in the community is sad and lonely, how does one show love to that person and let them know that they are wanted and cherished by the community?  By sharing one's body and making love to that person.  They don't call it "making love" for no apparent reason." (Making people feel like they were depriving others by saying "no" to sex—that is, emotionally manipulating people into having sex, and thereby destroying consent—was the big scandal that happened at Windward, I believe, and horrifyingly many others over history @_@ )

Or for a common and relatively mundane example: do we use traditional/organic farming in the soil or hydroponics/aeroponics?

Why not both?!  Why not just let people do what their passions are if it doesn't harm anything?  And let the governing principle be consent, tolerance, and liberty, free from pressures to do something one particular specific way when multiple solutions have their pros and cons :)

So be goblincore, be dragoncore, be solarpunk, be primitivist!  What reason on Earth is there that we can't all be part of the same community?  If we're all ancom at the end of the day, being together just makes us that much more successful, safe, and secure both in our existence and in each our own goals :')

(where, to me, ancom in this context basically means: devoted to protecting all our individual liberty and human rights through some degree of completely voluntary communal sharing and cooperation :3 )