Posted on 10/01/2009 3:01:09 PM PDT by ETL
By PENELOPE GREEN
Published: September 30, 2009
JOHANNA BRONK wants to make communal vegetarian meals and keep chickens. Mariel Berger hopes for social, artistic and political collaborations. Harmony Hazard is into hula hooping, book groups and anarchism.
HOME WORK Members of a fledgling collective get to know each other in their new house in Brooklyn.
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And if they did voluntarily share incomes, and didn’t require anyone else to do the same or otherwise contribute, I would wish them well.
I think it’s great that they can CHOOSE to live communally.
Communism works great on a small scale (after all, a family is a commune of sorts).
The kibbutz system in Israel is a good example of how communes can work well within a capitalistic framework.
Once a commune gets over a few hundred people, the enevitable interpersonal problems and corruption creep in.
Same here. I spend my first 5 post college working years (except for a year in corporate housing overseas) sharing houses with at least 2 other roommates. One place we even ‘communally’ cooked dinner together a couple times per month and it was fun.
In your daughter’s case it might be tough having someone move into a place that she has settled into and got used to having alone, but at least she will have more control over who will become her roommate.
Vegetarians are for the most part, all Tyrants that want to Impose their values upon everyone else.
I went camping once with a large group of people.
One of the Families was Vegetarian.
They didn’t bother to bring their own fry pan but refused to eat anything cooked in the pan that had cooked Bacon,
Even after it was wiped out and had olive oil added.
Vegetarians are pretty much a Pain in the Ass.
It’s actually Vegans who are that extreme, and yes, they do vary from disturbed to insane.
Regular vegetarians may add something animally to their rice-n-beans diet, from eggs to assure-me-it-was-naturally-raised-and-killed-humanely-and-I’ll-eat-it. Their motive is often mainly economics or health, not made-up morals.
Vegans are comparatively rare.
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