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I don't have a lot to add t...Interesting post.<br /><br />I don't have a lot to add to the debate other than to say that my wife and I eventually chose the Intentional Community route after 3 years of deciding what to do next (after leaving London). It was the only way we felt we could afford to live a slightly more simple life and bring our kids up in an environment where getting more stuff wasn't the main goal but also to continue to live in the modern world and not have a gruelling subsistence lifestyle.<br /><br />Some ICs can come with a large list of rules and sometimes some pretty far-out ideologies but others (as some of your other commenters have linked) are simply a collection of very different people brought together by a simple vision, such as affordable housing. <br /><br />The jury is still out whether we'll live like this for ever but the initial signs are good and the kids *love* it; I'm almost jealous of them.<br /><br />db<br /><br />p.s. Isn't an unintentional community what you get on every street corner?Bealershttp://becomingselfsufficient.org.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314170255512513562.post-89383075473034157012009-11-17T12:14:00.301+00:002009-11-17T12:14:00.301+00:00You're right. 'The Invisibles' is awes...You're right. 'The Invisibles' is awesome.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314170255512513562.post-26208907665094249412009-11-17T12:11:23.443+00:002009-11-17T12:11:23.443+00:00Dougald: "I do get slightly stuck with "...Dougald: "I do get slightly stuck with "intentional" communities, though. Without being totally flippant, I've always wanted to start an "unintentional community", something more haphazard, more attentive to what's actually happening, less ideal-oriented. That's why I end up writing hymns to 'muddling through'. "<br /><br />Absolutely agree, and - sorry - that was something I meant to pick up on from your post. There's a tension between asking that question ("how do we want to live?") and the outcome. The result may be very liquid modern, as you say!<br /><br />It mirrors the struggles I have with my own work: somewhere between world-as-blueprint-plan built floor by floor and world-as-ants, acting 'intentionally' from our holographic/genetic coding to create some emergent order, what can we hope for?<br /><br />The other aspect of cohousing-vs-frontporch that makes me think about that point: front porch is precisely about taking the world as it is and muddling through, but muddling in a particular, intentional direction. If we're all goats, wandering across the hills and slowly making paths for others to walk on, how do we let our hopes and choices steer where those paths end up?Dolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17110810881843699172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314170255512513562.post-10276550641266816632009-11-17T12:10:08.896+00:002009-11-17T12:10:08.896+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Dolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17110810881843699172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314170255512513562.post-63311362209031323282009-11-17T10:11:55.377+00:002009-11-17T10:11:55.377+00:00Well, that's the first blog post I've writ...Well, that's the first blog post I've written that my mum's ever commented on! :-) Thanks, everyone, for the thoughtful responses.<br /><br />@Ann - thanks for the quotes, mum! I love the Muggeridge/Ramsay one. And I agree about the phone - I think it's my least favourite form of communication - I prefer either the presence of face-to-face, or the opportunity to give time and attention of "asynchronous" communication - letters, email, commenting... (Actually, my least favourite form of communication is the answerphone!)<br /><br />@Dan - Thanks - I was hoping some of my parent-friends would come in and offer a bit of perspective. I wrote the first half of the post on the train to Cumbria on Sunday, then arrived to stay with Paul and Nav and 23-month-old Lila, who says words like "axolotl" and "abstract" and seems to think I look very amusing. One thing I realise is that many of us have remarkably little contact with children prior to becoming parents ourselves. I guess this is a peculiarly modern thing: fewer large families, more professional care and containment of children, a background level of paranoia about child safety.<br /><br />But it's very good to hear your enthusiasm for the possibilities of postmodern parenting! (Despite this post, I can never quite use the word "postmodern" without pulling a face...) And it's always good to be reminded of life outside the London bubble. I only succumbed to London two years ago, after resisting it for my entire twenties - and, although I've enjoyed it more than I expected, it's never been a long-term plan.<br /><br />About the "liquid" lifestyle being a childlike one - some critics would say this is just why it's problematic in adults. Rowan Williams makes an argument along these lines in the first section of 'Lost Icons', which is a really very good book. (I used to feel more comfortable recommending it to people before he became Archbishop of Canterbury!) His point, roughly, is that children need adults whose relationships and agreements are solid in order to create the space of safety for their own fluid lives. Up to a point, I think he's right - when I talked to Indy Johar about Bauman's "liquid modernity", he said he thought what we should be looking for is "appropriate viscosity" rather than an all-out celebration of the fluid. But another part of me says the "invention of childhood" historians have it all upside down - it was grown-uphood that was invented in the modern era...<br /><br />@Dan - thanks for the links! I share the sense of a coming-together between online and offline communities. It's one of the themes I want Space Makers to explore - First Life, spaces where online and offline meet, or which reflect the collaborative, ambiguous qualities of successful online spaces.<br /><br />I'm sure you're right that we should be learning from the 1970s - albeit, also putting up with the people who say we've nothing to worry about, because we're just repeating the cycle... LILAC is on the big mind-map my friends have made of places and projects we want to learn more about. Glad to hear it's going well.<br /><br />I do get slightly stuck with "intentional" communities, though. Without being totally flippant, I've always wanted to start an "unintentional community", something more haphazard, more attentive to what's actually happening, less ideal-oriented. That's why I end up writing hymns to "muddling through". Intentional communities sound orchestrated to me - and my sense is that improvisation is the great skill for 21st century living. (When I eventually leave London, I may even manage to write the book that backs that statement up.)Dougald Hinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13454824557311085039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314170255512513562.post-21375057890666520422009-11-17T09:06:32.167+00:002009-11-17T09:06:32.167+00:00Thanks for this post, Dougald. Lots of things to r...Thanks for this post, Dougald. Lots of things to respond to, but I'll just pick up on one: asking how to live overlaps some with the idea of 'intentional community'. There's so much written on that, might be worth dipping your toes into. Much of the modern version flowed from the 70s - crises, limits to growth etc. Feels a little like we're spiralling back to a similar place.<br /><br />In my head, there's some sort of hybrid out there between -<br /><br />http://cohousing.org.uk/<br /><br />http://frontporchforum.com/<br /><br />Not necessarily tech-based, but that kind of idea. (Note LILAC in Leeds on the coho site - they're racing ahead. Was only first proposed a couple of years back.)<br /><br />It's a humbling post, too. I'm spending faaar too much time reading about climate change and resource problems. Yet how we weave our lives with all this uncertainty...?Dolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17110810881843699172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314170255512513562.post-64341250802772869142009-11-17T08:45:43.406+00:002009-11-17T08:45:43.406+00:00Interesting to read your thoughts on parenthood, b...Interesting to read your thoughts on parenthood, but don't worry; these ways of living not only survive when we become parents, but actually make being a parent even better, easier and more rewarding. Outside of the London bubble there are plenty of us living interesting lives, doing worthwhile work, and bringing up children. <br /><br />The advantage of this fluid modern lifestyle is it's easy to fit children into it, rather than (as our grandfathers did) keeping work and home separate, and therefore missing out on much of being a parent.<br /><br />'A style of living in which all relationships and agreements can be dissolved at a moment's notice' is actually a description of childhood, after all. Wasn't that what it was like for you in the playground, or when your parents moved street, or you changed class?Dan Thompsonhttp://www.danthompson.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314170255512513562.post-20777232663172195742009-11-17T08:27:44.995+00:002009-11-17T08:27:44.995+00:00Hi Dougald. That's an interesting birthday pos...Hi Dougald. That's an interesting birthday post! Sorry I was not really 'available' when you rang last night - somewhat pre-occupied. That can be the problem with the 'phone.<br />Not much time now, but one or two regular thoughts come to mind:<br />'Those who most want to change the world are most changed by the world.'<br />'Below, (on earth)to grow is to change, to be perfect is to have changed much.' J H Newman on Jesus, of course. (The perfect man?). Hmmm.<br />and lastly: Conversation between Malcolm Muggerige & A B of C (wonderful, big, burly man with 'eyebrows' whose name escapes me just now). 'People have often said that you are wise; what do you think they mean?'<br />'Hmmm, wise, do they? Hmmm, ... <br />coping.' <br />Goes something like that. Maybe if I kept my mouth shut more often someone might describe me as wise... but then again, I doubt it!<br />much love as ever. max<br />ps Ramsay - that's the chap!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16276234257430285908noreply@blogger.com