Re: Washington Post Article | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Michael Mariner (mykanofone.net) | |
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 09:00:37 -0500 |
First, let's consider the source, the author -- a 20-something New York Gen-Xer who has written for the Village Voice. What's the article's slant? She's recounting her visit to a "neo-counter-culture" community in the hinterlands of Wash. State. She's speaking to her audience of hip, jaded, alienated, urban friends so she's reacting with some condescension but she also admits to being somewhat touched by her Uncle's lifestyle. Maybe, just maybe, someday she might go for that lifestyle herself - when she's too old to care if she's hip! Second, will this article damage cohousing's reputation to where it will matter five years from now? Nah. Finally, how fallacious was her reporting? My answer: Very hard to pin down because it was such a highly subjective, highly personal approach. It reads more like fiction or a diary rather than journalistic reporting. At one point she calls the common house a "communal" house. Same thing to a hip 20-something Gen-Xer. She's not a cohousing insider and could care less about some subtle distinction like this. I agree with others who said this is more of a personal essay about her Uncle rather than journalistic reporting on cohousing. Mike Mariner San Juan Cohousing, near Durango, CO, where we're looking for a few more folks to join us on 240 acres of beautiful land. Check us out at: http://shell.rmi.net/~ganesh/ or email Mac Thomson at ganesh [at] rmi.net ++++++ OTHER KEY ONLINE COMMUNITY RESOURCES +++++ Cohousing: www.cohousing.org/ Ecovillages: www.gaia.org/ Intentional Communities: www.ic.org/
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