Wednesday, June 11, 2008

http://www.angelfire.com/mac/mcclain/preschooler.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Tribalism

http://neotribe.tribe.net/thread/169fb770-3cf6-4c2a-8917-8de99169a717

http://uhlm-shadi.tribe.net/thread/e2896b34-0853-4dbb-a651-fcdb936dbb2a

http://remarkk.com/2007/01/
http://remarkk.com/2007/02/25/essay-what-is-an-open-creative-community/

i googled as follows and it made me gag. it wasn't what i wanted at all.


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=neo-traditional+renaissance+%22new+towns%22+business&spell=1

who are these people who are 'designing' and where are all these places they are supposed to be designing, anyway? I'm not so interested in architecture. Architecture is afterward. I want culture.

Nobody thinks the way i do about all this. The wikipedia entry on 'neo-tribalism' gets some of my thoughts. Forming a deliberate community seems difficult, and fraught with kookiness. What we are after is not a cult, not a religion. It is not a 'technicoligically contrived internet 'community' tribe of geeks who meet in chat-blog places. It is not survivalism, not anti goverment anti UN conspiricacy theoryism. It is certainly not white supremacist. It is more like a small town. food co-opish... 'you can't go back' yeah, but it is still about the Land. Land. Land. work and land is all we have. The earth, your neighbor, together working. some 'system' competition, but by deliberate intent, not some god of blind force we worship and bow down to, no, it bows down to us, we are the lords of the impersonal forces, the "crown of creation" and He regained the lordship for us when we lost it- real doing business, but a different way of culturally conceiving of it, of investing it, of grouping it, cooperating to form it, more local, alot of it, but not exclusively local... not all globalism and big structure is bad, common...not anarchism, no, no... not even libertarianism... it has to do with balance, (left-right brain balance?) a more musical culture, really. creating a musical culture. yeah. oh, and, well, Him, behind it. We can do nothing without Him.

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