Re: What's wrong with communes?
From: Sharon Villines (sharonvillinesprodigy.net)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 11:08:02 -0600 (MDT)
> It seems to me a bit odd that while we are all, to a larger or smaller
> extent, agents for social change, there is such a pervasive feeling
> that we should allow the media to determine what "is" and
> what "isn't".

This is an interesting point but somewhere in the long process of conception
to move in, someone quoted someone as saying, building cohousing is hard.
You can't do two hard things at once. Either you are building a housing
complex that fosters community or you are ...... You can't do both and still
get a new cohousing community built.

I would say that you can either be building cohousing or you can change the
English language. If you want to build cohousing now, you need to speak the
language that others are already speaking. THEN you can decide if the
priority of your group is to salvage the word commune.

The media actually doesn't dictate although they certainly feed on our own
sensationlistic interests -- the people who buy their papers dictate. It is
the language of the "the consumer."

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org


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