Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Secrecy vs Right to Privacy? Sharing vs Hiding?

[Steve Welzer (stevenwelzer]

Sharon wrote:

" . . . the issues are larger than the United States. The move to
conservatism is global. What we see as our own socio-economic problems are
occurring almost everywhere. The forces are larger than personalities or
specific governance methods. There is a movement toward radical
conservatism in the form of autocratic governments that is growing stronger
all over western civilization."

It's a function of the malaise of our globalized hypermodern society.
What's been lost in the "progression" to our current reality is the
intermediate level of association (and support), the one between the
nuclear-family household and the mass-society Leviathan. That's the level
of community. Restoring it is what our movement is about.

People don't realize what's been lost. The vast majority of humans lived in
tribes, villages, and small towns for the vast extent of pre-history and
even for millennia of the historical period until relatively very recently.
Now most isolated individuals or isolated households confront a world of
huge impersonal institutions, remote power centers, and globalized
economies characterized by cruel inequalities.

Confused and bereft, people may turn to radical conservatism or religious
fundamentalism or opioids, but the real solution is the revitalization of
community life, re-dwelling in particular places on Earth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFJdr8fwJUA

Steve Welzer
Altair EcoVillage project