Message from @Rabbidsith
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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
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.
np
@Mick I came to a similar conclusion about a week ago. However, I didn't think about the schoolhouse thing.
Yeah. Spent some time living in a very back-to-the-land, homesteadified area in the midwest for a couple years. Started with some farm work and then stayed. It's a common theme, but I experienced a from of hyper white flight. Liberal urbanites fled the city and build small homesteads, small businesses, etc. in a small, low-cost living town. They also poz it up. More and more so over time. I got red-pilled there, but wanted some variation of that lifestyle.
Eventually, as my desire for family and community developed, and then my awareness of how my kids would then be therefore taught and raised I started to think how I can achieve some balance.
Schools. These white-flighter anti-racists often enroll or start up Waldorf schools. I figured, traditionalists should do just that.
This area had some money and support from Big Organic in terms of jobs and creating an environment. But the area has grown wuickly since the 90's and seems to quickly asserting itself over the local normie republican population.
Won't reveal the exact location to avoid doxxing but maybe in the future I will. Seems relatively safe to do so here