A commune or a cult would be better than this circus lol
If you can find one that isn’t a weird sex cult, let me know.
On the other hand, if you find a werid sex cult, let me know.
If you don’t mind people who never bathe, try these tribes in Namibia:
https://guardian.ng/life/the-namibian-tribe-where-sex-is-offered-to-guests/
god I was hoping it was like tourists show up and just get laid by natives but instead it’s just weird cuckolding.
tourists show up and just get laid
That would be Ibiza… but it only works during summer.
Ibiza
ohh yes! They got the kinda nightclubs you usually only see in movies.
That article kind of presents an idyllic/outdated view of the Himba people. Modern life affects them as well and a lot of young people don’t want to live like that.
Interesting, and indeed a dilemma. I basically mentioned it because just yesterday I saw a guy talking about “sex in the past”, and he happened to mention this, apparently in an even more idealized/outdated way.
Basically he said that a bunch of them would go through a “bonding ritual” at the age of 14, and from then on live like a sort of communal marriage, where the woman would shoo out the husband because she had a date with some other guy of the group, and that they were the “happiest people in the world” and would act surprised at outsiders’ focus on their sexual practices.
From the other article, it sounded more like forced marriage and women abuse… and here it sounds like most of them want to get out of there.
Interesting series of takes.
What if it was just a vanilla sex cult?
I’d join.
you gotta suck a few eggs to make an omelette
Does the cult have a good plan for healthcare? If so, please send me your newsletter, manifesto, religious tract, pentabarf, whatever.
I’d settle for a cult with a good dentist tbh. According to US healthcare eyes and teeth are separate from the rest of your body.
We call teeth “Luxury Bones” up here in Canada.
As somebody who was once part of a cult, it’s just the same circus but worse.
If you’ve ever heard of WOOFing that’s a great place to start. It’s a work trade program I did years ago, tons of farms around the world. You get room and board, just work the farm for a short term. I traveled across Canada doing that years ago and ended up staying on one for 2 years in the discovery islands off the coast of BC. One of the best times in my life. Now I live in downtown Toronto, wondering why I ever came back ahaha
I dont know, you cant really go shopping for cults. Cults go shopping for you.
In soviet Russia…
Already planning on it here in Canada once my friends and I have the money for what we want to do.
Farming (+greenhousing) and some cottage rentals on the side.
Peace out, modern society!
Cottage rentals for income?
Currently my plan is to get far enough into my career that I can spend half my time in city making money and half in the woods
Exactly, cottage rentals for income. To supplement farming and other ventures, anyway.
I’m lucky that my work is 99.9% remote, so as long as I can acquire a stable internet connect I can continue to work out there if needed. Existing entirely in the woods is incredibly appealing.
I like that idea. Continuing to make money, no matter if it’s just a few hundred dollars a month, is the main hurdle for me to leave. You’d still need to finance construction but it’s a good long term vision.
I am worried about fire seasons/smoke seasons. At best it shortens the tourist season and at worst I lose everything : /
Yeah, that lack of startup capital is why I’m not doing it already. A bunch of us are saving to pool money together to self-finance. You can also just start with a couple of nice trailers (which you wouldn’t be able to charge as much for, of course) and gradually work towards full cottages. Some cottages in areas I frequent around here are just trailers and are still going for like $300 CAD a night in the middle of September.
At least insurance should protect you against total loss?
I don’t come anywhere near close to meeting the requirements for intentional communities. Chronic illness is a real bastard. I don’t need much and the quality of my life could so easily be improved by just a little help from others, but everyone - even intentional communities - is caught up in focusing on how much others can help them. What I can give is less tangible, and therefore dismissed.
I don’t want to abandon society but I do recognise we’d all be far better off if we lived in ways which were less isolating. Every person/family for themselves harms us all.
A huge problem is that most neighborhoods and houses aren’t facilitating community. You don’t need a commune or a cult as OP was joking.
I live in a house where one of the apartments is used communally by all the other residents of the house and it changes so much. It doesn’t have a functioning bathroom so the landlords couldn’t give it up for rent. But it has a kitchen, a balcony etc.
Very often I would like to abandon my life in reality and become a part of an ideal world which I have imagined. It is surprisingly easy to become part of a rural cult (look up “intentional communities”) so it’s a backup plan I have in mind if necessary, but with people we’re going to be dealing with a different version of the same set of issues. We as a species are nuts.
Lol yeah I love intentional communities, I so want to join one if I could!
I used to live in a housing co-op and loved it. That being said you are going to have to deal with people intimately in that kind of living situation, so quality of life is greatly influenced by how well you mesh with the others around and things can change.
I’ve thought for a while that it would be cool to buy up a block in a suburb and do urban farming as a community.
see if there are any community gardens in your area. they’re basically what you’re talking about, although usually only the land owner and/or farm manager lives there. my favorite one around here also has a rotating volunteer position who lives on site.
What about a traveling circus? Bonuses: it’s mobile, it’s a circus by design, it’s inclusive, and goofing around is just part of the culture!
This idea is precious
No, but finding a job in a slightly less fucked country would be great once I have sufficient work experience.
You can do it, I believe in you!!
Thank you. <3
Already looking for a land that might be livable in 10/15 years
“Might” or “should”? A lot of land “might” be livable, some different land “should” be livable if you build a fallout shelter and a bio-dome.
I’m curious where.
Probably hill zones: the land is easier to work than mountains, close to the plains (where there are natural water reserves) but still high enough to have lower temperatures
I’m thinking… North.
And not low lying near a coast.
Abandon society - yes. Commune - JFC no. Vagabond gypsy caravan? Possibly, but only if there are werewolves and mysteriously sexy tarot card casters involved.
My dad did it back when he was a hippy.
He still talks very fondly of the time he spent out in the Arizona desert all those decades ago.A piece of me would like to drop out of society and live in solitude.
While I lean towards being a loner, I realized that I am probably mostly a hybrid.
I enjoy some human interaction, but also love being alone to do whatever the fuck I want.
To me a commune would be too intimate and I think would end up being like a small town type of scenario which doesn’t appeal to me.That’s a good idea. It would be interesting to create an ideal communist utopia on a small scale so we can see how/if it actually works. Do it!
The Spanish tried this in the 30’s. It was a part of the Spanish civil war and is an interesting read. I’d also recommend On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky which goes more in depth.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Revolution_of_1936Edit: Spelling
