Reply #37: Uh-oh. I think I'm a hippie.

[UncleSepp]

:rofl: This is too funny. Thank you so much for this post. Just the other day I was talking with a customer who was becoming a friend about communities of purpose. One geek to another, we were describing what we were trying to do, and it went a little like this:

Reestablish extended family, with many adults and children, not necessarily related but family all the same.
Reduce duplication of effort and ownership. There are some things that there is no need for every two people to have one of.
Live lightly.
Respect individual differences for the good of the individual and the group. There are some things one person is going to be better at or worse at, enjoy more or enjoy less; trade off to maximize both efficiency and happiness for the individuals and the group.
Learn new ways to resolve conflict that don't involve fighting until one person wins.

We didn't get to finish talking about it, since he was going off to help a friend build a strawbale house and I had to get to the next job. It never would have occurred to me to identify this as a hippie sensibility, and I realize that is because of purely aesthetic considerations. It's funny now, I really ought to have seen it.

:-) :-) Take care!