Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: eco-village

[J . Massengale (J.Massengale]

>>Or, to put it more positively, I am working hard to find ways to bring the
benefits of this sometimes-awe-inspiring way of thinking and dealing with how
we live together to the places I (and you) already live...

I'm sorry, but what "sometimes-awe-inspiring way of thinking" is that?

Your main point is that you are not  confined to "any tightly bound,
pre-defined
or otherwise non-organic, dead, static, un-human and un-ecologically healthy
packaging of this idea called...eco-village," and most of your post was about
what you are *not* doing. There were only a few general positive phrases,
which virtually anyone on the list would agree with, but I wouldn't call them
"awe-inspiring."

To get back to my original point, it's nice to know you are "working hard to
find ways" to improve the places we live, but how are we supposed to know
what we think of those ways if you can't say what they are?

How do we know, for example, if they are successful, community-held ideas, or
subjective, rather idiosyncratic ideas like Paolo Soleri's or Buckminster
Fuller's (neither of whom could deal with existing communities, because they
had to remake the world in their own image)? You couldn't pay me, or most
people, to live in their creations.