There are a lot of searching people in the world who are building both themselves and life around, trying to build a better future. What has actually been built, where and how do these people live?
There are interesting articles about this by Valery Hiltunen: Vtorobyt — settlements of the future and Damangur — it’s close
Snippets from there:
My hypothesis is this: for the people of the future, the problems of housing and clothing will fade into the background. With all due respect to these useful things. As I understand Confucius: if you sleep in life, all your problems are not very interesting: what do you eat, where, with whom and under what roof do you sleep. And if you have already woken up, many external problems fade into the background.
There is a general principle for the organization of secondary life—I define it for myself in three lines.
First: there live rascals — people who try not to multiply evil and do not spoil.
Second, they are self-sufficient. So far, I have not seen complete independence from external sources of energy and food anywhere, except, perhaps, the most exotic, “Robinson” options, but everywhere I noted the desire to minimize the consumption of gasoline, gas, and form a diet from local food, and not imported from outside the settlements.
And the third thing: in these settlements there is always a painful, but regular work to reveal some secret of human life, some secret. See →