Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Some life and cohousing advise

[balaji (balaji]

Robert is absolutely correct, and indeed, his view is in accord with
everything we know from studying community.  I'm a cultural
anthropologist, and I've done fieldwork for thirty years in India, mostly,
and in Japan.  Communities "work" because humans are adapted for
cooperation.  They are disagreemens, to be sure, but the long-term effect
of conflict resolution is usually to strengthen community bonds.  When
exceptions occur, it is because of peculiar or aberrant conditions; some
would say the period of industrialization in the West constitutes one such
aberrant condition.  If Richard Heinberg and others are correct, we are
going to have to relearn the skills the rest of the world never forgot --
skills of living and working in community.  The good news is that we are
genetically prepared for this kind of adaptation.  Cohousing is just
another road "back to the village."

I look forward to making the journey.

Best,

Charles Nuckolls

P.S. Our community in formation is called "Utah Valley Cohousing
Community" and can be found on the Yahoo disucssion site.