The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lansing (Michigan) has a magazine that is published about 8 times a year.
In the most current issue they have an article about a group of like-minded, young families who decided to move to a group of four houses on five acres. They have been making a go-of-it since 2019.
One of the money-quotes was "All we are trying to do here is about living well and restoring many things that modern industrial life has robbed us (of)"
"...we live in closer community because it means that more relationships and closer relationships develop...knowing that to be in right relationship with God is at the heart of community."
and
"Cottonwood is not a monastery, religious community or commune. here are no vows, promises or covenants."
"We are just living in houses that are close to one another and attempting to create the "historically ordinary life as lived by people in any hamlet or village..."
Part of that reconnecting to that "historically ordinary life" is to raise some of their own food...gardens and orchards and farm animals.
The point guy is an Air Force brat whose father was stationed in 18 different places, many of them over-seas. He is not a pie-in-the-sky academic.
ERJ - I will check the link out when I get the opportunity.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me this is the sort of the Rod Dreher was talking about in The Benedict Option.
Exactly that book:
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Dreher? Pfft!
DeleteMade a lot of big talk about save America this and that. Restore the Republic. Build our country...but he bugged out for Europe
Just another "smart guy" grifter that absolutely infests "conservative America" and contaminates normal America.
Bounced from Methodist to Catholic to Orthodox. Same pattern as that finger in the air trash Glenn Beck.
We see you
DeleteThere will be more of this I suspect.
ReplyDeleteLook at that chaz nonsense in portland was it?
Anyone else notice that when our side adopts their tactics, we always win? Like when the pantifa woman filming the altercation scolded the arresting officer for being rough with the female arrestee, demanding a female officer perform the arrest!
"How do you know they don't identify as female?"
Shut down the entire debate in one sentence, didn't it?
Who cares if its a ridiculous lie. Like they don't know they're lying when they do it? This ain't a fair fight, we need to stop barking about people breaking the rules. Cracked eggs and Omlettes and all that.
We had planned this very thing with our family. But it fell apart in the planning stages. I still think this is viable... with the right people. And those may NOT be your relatives.
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I live on a road where a bunch of people tried this in the 60's and 70's. It worked for a while, but people grow and change, and it was mostly younger couples who started it. Careers change. Marriages founder. Jobs disappear. Who did the bulk of the work to keep up the common areas (road maintenance and snow clearing) becomes a dispute. It became an issue when folks wanted to move and get some equity back, but the ones staying didn't have the liquidity to buy them out. Of course this eventually ended up in the courts and was a giant mess for decades. Lots of ill feelings still.
ReplyDeleteOh, I forgot to add that of course there were restrictions on who could join the group, so that made it even harder for people to sell and leave. It turned into a giant Charlie Foxtrot.
DeleteImagine someone trying to get a mortgage under these conditions? Homeowners insurance?
My guess is that the "historically ordinary life as lived by people in any hamlet or village..." wasn't done because people inherently liked it, so much as it provided some level of protection and access to other people with various skills that were needed. Blacksmith. Cooper. Wheelwright. Shopkeeper. Innkeeper. Sounds to me like they are romanticizing the lifestyle of the Middle Ages without considering why it worked.
DeleteAs recently as the 1950s, it was the norms for the Irish to pick homes near other Irish folks, close to their preferred church and pubs. The same for the Italians, the Hunkys, the Lebanese and so on.
DeleteIn the 1960s corporations made a point of moving people so they would not develop affiliations with anything other than their corporation.
From a historical perspective, camping out with your "tribe" was a system that worked romanticized or not.
Corporations weren't the only ones in that business of "tossing the salad" so to reduce ethnic cohesion.
Delete60s saw govt transport and neighborhood "improvements" rip apart Polish, Croatian, Ukrainian, etc neighborhoods from Pittsburgh to Cleveland to Chicago.
Strangely the Irish and Italian neighborhoods far less impacted. Why?
The Irish, as a group, from early on flocked to govt jobs (cops, fire, clerks etc) and political appointments so they protected "their own".
Italians, well we know how they, especially the Sicilians, dealt with threats to their neighborhoods.....capiche?
Why don't they just try to become Amish? Sounds like what their goal is.
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Anyone in that group every read about the Mayflower Compact and perhaps the Jamestown settlement.
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