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barcoder 4 hours ago

Inspiring videos that are still relevant today. It's beautiful to see people coming together and living in a way that makes them feel joy and be comfortable in relatively simple ways. Wealth seems to bring with it seclusion. Private roads and estates, big empty houses. In contrast the counter culture examples show people living in sprawling communities helping one another.

demaga 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Serious question: why don't these communities 'succeed' then. Meaning, why don't they keep existing for decades, and why don't more people get interested in this way of living?

kmoser an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The lure of modern society is difficult to resist: most kids would rather live in the suburbs, play video games, and scroll social media than be sequestered on a remote farm with sparse accommodations.

A close approximation may be the Amish or Mennonites. It's a difficult life, and not prone to explosive growth.

luqtas 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

do you mean like half of the worldwide population [0]? or anything on top of that like remote villages anywhere in the world that aren't liberal like hippies but are very much tied to pastoral ways of living? heck if back in 1600 we didn't killed dozens of millions of people maybe this type of communities would be much more widespread

[0] https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/developmenttalk/half-global-p...

tptacek 18 minutes ago | parent [-]

I don't think "pastoral ways of living" are a genuinely held cultural preference for a lot of that population. I'd hazard a guess that quite a few of them want electricity, reliable clean water from a tap, and paved roads.

SoftTalker 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Someone has to actually produce what they need.

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jrflowers an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Some of them do, like Black Bear Ranch. I’d wager that there are more that just don’t advertise.