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1347d · Sanctuary
Looking for whoever is interested in considering a Galt's Gulch experience:
https://read.cash/@sanctuary.the-one-law/economy-and-the-one-law-671a687d
There may be many, eventually
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I think that strong communities like the Cheran one seem like a natural response to many of the problems we have today, but I do not feel ready for going far abroad to set one up.
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Me either,
but events have conspired to relocate my locale,
Along the way I will have the ability to contact and work at this.
I need to contact some of the Liberland people here
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Still, there are many interesting issues to discuss here, like the Cheran "experiment". I am not at all (yet?) convinced that it even can last very long, much less easily be replicated
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The root of their success appears to be a tribal exclusion zone.
That works for them,
for now,
but in the long run it gets run over by a busload of immigrants.
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One thing that is a bit unclear to me is exactly what are they excluding. They seem to still have a political system of sorts, with leaders of sorts. Do they just not call it politics?
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I mean, they did throw out the bad guys, and their current system may be better than what they had, but it seems misleading to just call the whole thing "no politics".
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Not as a political academic,
but there is probably some kind of jargon to differentiate
between "_our_ way of life" political wars
and "who washes dishes this week" arguments
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From the wiki: "The town's social cohesion stems in part from its many large extended families. Most residents are native to the area, and it is customary to marry within the town."
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Further, Cheran is a small area, they had a very clear reason to do this (and they were "all" in on it it seems), they are still in the "let's try to make this work" phase and so on.
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This, certainly.
The effort to do this appears to be unprecedented,
and that may be their page in the history books.