Colonies vs Intentional Communities (Myth20c - Ep111)

Alienation and disillusionment from society at large is nothing new. Many modern religious and other communities today were themselves born out of frustration historically with the way things were proceeding in the mainstream. What sets them apart, however, is that fact that they are still around - the track record for most intentional communities is little better than startups, failing more than 90% of the time. And the ones that succeed are often marked by how little they have changed fundamentally in order to survive, yet are just different enough to present to an attractive alternative. It turns out civilization is an incredibly difficult social technology that is not easy to recreate from scratch, and the most successful alternatives to the mainstream take this lesson seriously and have rules, systems for managing resources, ways of benefiting from the outside world, and means for excluding those that seek to destroy them.

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