- 11 Mar 2011 16:40
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"I feel you need to try and invent misapprehensions by other posters that do not exist to create the opportunity for you to stroke yourself in your special area." -AuContraireVoltaire
If you were to right now devise a way to live your life more communally, how would you go about doing it? I'm particularly interested in how urban dwellers would effect this as I'm much more familiar with 'helping out' in rural areas.
I think about things that people could use help with, including child-rearing, general maintenance, household things like cooking, cleaning and so forth. Small scale issues that are nonetheless immediately important to most people.
I often daydream about having individual living spaces interspersed with communal ones. The most obvious communal aspects would be sharing kitchens (and duties) and having space for socialisation that would allow adults to share their time with children instead of having this strange divorced existence from one or the other (adults or children).
My neighbourhood does do things like close the streets down once in a while to have social events, which are fantastic. A number of Montreal neighbourhoods do this throughout the warm months. However, during the winter we all tend to retreat into our individual homes and rarely socialise in the same way.
So...what kinds of things would you like to see, assuming you're not a total misanthrope?
I think about things that people could use help with, including child-rearing, general maintenance, household things like cooking, cleaning and so forth. Small scale issues that are nonetheless immediately important to most people.
I often daydream about having individual living spaces interspersed with communal ones. The most obvious communal aspects would be sharing kitchens (and duties) and having space for socialisation that would allow adults to share their time with children instead of having this strange divorced existence from one or the other (adults or children).
My neighbourhood does do things like close the streets down once in a while to have social events, which are fantastic. A number of Montreal neighbourhoods do this throughout the warm months. However, during the winter we all tend to retreat into our individual homes and rarely socialise in the same way.
So...what kinds of things would you like to see, assuming you're not a total misanthrope?
"I feel you need to try and invent misapprehensions by other posters that do not exist to create the opportunity for you to stroke yourself in your special area." -AuContraireVoltaire