That's a bad idea for a society. It brings everyone down to the least common denominator.

organization needs to be institutional and on a family level

I think that individualism is why whites make such great institutions.

We have to.

I agree too. I dont know a lot about it. But from what little I know, if we are the most individualistic people when it comes to scientific revolutions we have many more pathfinders and inventors because they tend to know how to reject common knowledge when needed

But alas when in group competition we falter for a time

Yes. However, until recently, we had good sportsmanship.

That competition worked for us.

We don't have to become minorities in mindset to survive.

We just have to create institutions that will shield us.

We're individualistic but not so much at the expense of others. We take pride in lifting one another up and seeing them do their best. The two, individual and collective, have gone hand-in-hand in our culture.

That's my though wrt to institutions. My idea is enough folks willing to contribute time, money, sweat to teaching the next generation. This broad idea is very important to get behind. Teaching and sharing knowledge and values with our kids and literally building physical structures.

A 'schoolhouse' idea can be implemented in rural, suburban and even urban environments.

I agree.

A weightroom/gym is also a great way to get together. The idea is land, space. Shit, you can build a little spot and fill it with weights and that's how you could start.

IE weightroom ftw

Pipedream=commune/wn community. It's what I want but how many people can you reliably get committed to that?

Well. Look at history.

There are tightly knit communities.

You can build a schoolhouse and still be engaged in today's society. Still work your desk job. Etc...

You can have as large of a community as you can keep up with.

If you can great. It's definitely doable. I'm aiming for a bigger tent.

But the schoolhouse could be a gateway to an intentional community. Ideally, I'd want to get enough acreage to allow for all sorts of expansion. More structures, growing of food, cattle, even housing; see, my hearts in a community. I want the initial bar to entry to be lower, though. Schoolhouse seems to fit that bill for me.

Indeed.

However, do keep in mind that such a community is restricted to about 150 people.

Even if its not your kids, presently or if you presently have none, you can contribute

by human nature, that's about the max that we can keep up with

That's not a bad thing though. You can have other communities overlap.

It could snowball very very quickly to a MUCH larger number

and 150 people feels like a lot more

agreed

True and it likely will.

However, 150 people is about as much as you can reasonably keep up with.

that's why the schoolhouse is the best approach.

^

agreed

Again, strength in numbers. Low bar to entry. But meaningful and lasting impact

agreed

most intelligent thing that I've seen in a while

Don't mean to lecture, I just haven't been able to flesh out these ideas until now. New to IE

Thanks! I really appreciate it. Just had my thinking cap on for awhile.