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
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.
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?
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".
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
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."
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.
This, certainly.
The effort to do this appears to be unprecedented,
and that may be their page in the history books.
