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        barcoder wrote 8 hours 4 min ago:
        Inspiring videos that are still relevant today. It's beautiful to see
        people coming together and living in a way that makes them feel joy and
        be comfortable in relatively simple ways. Wealth seems to bring with it
        seclusion. Private roads and estates, big empty houses. In contrast the
        counter culture examples show people living in sprawling communities
        helping one another.
       
          demaga wrote 6 hours 17 min ago:
          Serious question: why don't these communities 'succeed' then.
          Meaning, why don't they keep existing for decades, and why don't more
          people get interested in this way of living?
       
            warumdarum wrote 2 hours 48 min ago:
            Because family brings vurnersbility and vurnersbility brings
            dependence on stability aka conservatism. The phase of life you
            start into with one another transports you right into adulthood and
            responsibility.  And some just dont grow up to that. Some eternally
            leech on others.  And all the nice words and good intent wont fix
            that.
       
              soulofmischief wrote 2 hours 16 min ago:
              What an incredibly callous comment that both manages to assume
              everyone should have the same goals you've decided are proper, to
              completely disregard socioeconomic, environmental and genetic
              differences which can cause life to be a breeze for some and a
              constant struggle for others.
       
            jrflowers wrote 4 hours 52 min ago:
            Some of them do, like Black Bear Ranch.   I’d wager that there
            are more that just don’t advertise.
       
            kmoser wrote 4 hours 52 min ago:
            The lure of modern society is difficult to resist: most kids would
            rather live in the suburbs, play video games, and scroll social
            media than be sequestered on a remote farm with sparse
            accommodations.
            
            A close approximation may be the Amish or Mennonites. It's a
            difficult life, and not prone to explosive growth.
       
            luqtas wrote 5 hours 49 min ago:
            do you mean like half of the worldwide population [0]? or anything
            on top of that like remote villages anywhere in the world that
            aren't liberal like hippies but are very much tied to pastoral ways
            of living? heck if back in 1600 we didn't killed dozens of millions
            of people maybe this type of communities would be much more
            widespread
            
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  HTML      [1]: https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/developmenttalk/half-global...
       
              alephnerd wrote 3 hours 41 min ago:
              They are living that way not out of choice but out of poverty.
              Those kinds of villages with the kind of pastoral life you are
              ruing for are those villages and regions where medical care,
              education, and other basic services are sparse to no nonexistent.
       
              tptacek wrote 4 hours 4 min ago:
              I don't think "pastoral ways of living" are a genuinely held
              cultural preference for a lot of that population. I'd hazard a
              guess that quite a few of them want electricity, reliable clean
              water from a tap, and paved roads.
       
            SoftTalker wrote 6 hours 1 min ago:
            Someone has to actually produce what they need.
       
        beratbozkurt0 wrote 10 hours 19 min ago:
        Seeing historical things and witnessing those moments (even in this day
        and age) is very enjoyable. Similarly, it's possible to access this
        information through official companies in Türkiye.
        
  HTML  [1]: https://filmmirasim.ktb.gov.tr/
       
        jruohonen wrote 10 hours 39 min ago:
        "Far Out Company is dedicated to unearthing the work of
        under-appreciated artists of the 1960s and ‘70s counterculture."
        
        For once, we have a business idea with a mission!
       
        SpecStudioHN wrote 10 hours 39 min ago:
        i wuz there.
       
          orsorna wrote 8 hours 32 min ago:
          I was there.
          
          I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
       
            The_Blade wrote 5 hours 36 min ago:
            oh my [deity] i LOVE Can
            
            Holger Czukay is what happens when you combine Stockhausen and that
            amazing mustache. him Liebezeit Karoli and Schmidt were so far out
            there they drove not one but two singers crazy (take that, Roger
            Waters). there was a band Mooney Suzuki named after them although
            their chief achievement was that one of the members later joined
            The Strokes (Nikolai Fraiture)
            
            i just listened to some Steve Reich last week. since the Guards
            game was rain delayed alongside whatever the hell happened ith
            Fable i might have to interpolate a Tago Mago / Ege Bamyasi /
            Future Days triple frontier with the WC on this fine Sunday
       
            IBCNU wrote 6 hours 59 min ago:
            Please tell me more about that! CAN still changing lives.
       
       
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