Cohousing-L Mailing List: re cohousing on the Ezra Klein show : new episode today

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/opinion/ezra-klein-kristen-ghodsee.html


Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’"The New York Times Audio app includes 
podcasts, narrated articles from the newsroom and other publishers, as well as 
exclusive new shows — including this one — which we’re making available to 
readers for a limited time. Download the audio app here.“Today’s 
future-positive writers critique our economies while largely seeming to ignore 
that anything might be amiss in our private lives,” writes Kristen Ghodsee. 
Even our most ambitious visions of utopia tend to focus on outcomes that can be 
achieved through public policy — things like abundant clean energy or 
liberation from employment — while ignoring many of the aspects of our lives 
that matter to us the most: how we live, raise our children, and tend to our 
most meaningful relationships.[You can listen to this episode of “The Ezra 
Klein Show” on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google or wherever you get your 
podcasts.]Ghodsee’s new book, “Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild 
Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life,” is an attempt to change that. 
The book is a tour of radical social experiments from communes and ecovillages 
to “platonic parenting” and intentional communities. But, on a deeper level, 
it’s a critique of the way existing structures of family and community life 
have left so many of us devoid of care and connection, and a vision of what it 
could mean to organize our lives differently."
Judith Lienhard, Cascadia Commons Portland Oregon