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  • kidcollins
    kidcollins Posts: 47
    Why don't you just go to Costa Rica and chill on the beach for 6 months. You can live on little money by camping and the land will provide you with most of the food you need. The world can be a little overwhelmingly depressing these days. But, we humans are an interesting breed. We have gotten ourselves into this shitstew and we will get ourselves most of the way out. Get in touch with mother nature wherever that may lead you, whether it be a commune or a warm beach in Thailand. There are positive changes happening daily, our media does'nt do enough to bring this to peoples attention. People, companies, communities are slowly (yes we need to speed it up) staring to make necessary changes. Our planet Earth is a living creature (of sorts) and we need to treat her and our fellow inhabitants with greater respect. Yes we will lose some species in the coming years. But I firmly believe that we will endure and turn this ship around. (God/Allah/Buddha/Aliens help us)
  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    No place is perfect, so don't expect a perfect society where everyone lives in peace and harmony. There will be conflicts there as well. You have a point, though, you'll be away from all this, which can be so heavy, I agree. But as I said, there will be conflicts there too, there will be a clash of views too ... But if you go there to learn how to be more independent, well, do it. Even if you do not like it, it will be a great experience, you will gain new perspectives... I just hope you don't see it as a magical solution to your problems because if it is an escape from 'reality', those feelings will eventually return.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Cheguevara6 wrote:
    babz, it would be a lie to say I am not worried and a little scared. I have lived in a city my entire life. I have lived a middle class life. My needs have always been given to me. I havent ever had a job.

    So to move to a commune, give up most of my possessions, work for the commune, and live closely with people, and to be cut off almost completely from mainstream culture will be a big change. But in all honesty, I am graduating college in a few months and really cant fathom myself working in "regular life" right now. Its just too much. I just cant do it. Maybe I will change my mind in a while, but right now I want to graduate and immediately move to the commune. The war has taken its toll on me, reading about how the environment is being destroyed has taken its toll. In all honesty, I dont feel like I would survive working and living in mainstream society. I would love to work for the commune but also to sing to salmon, to interact with people, to appreciate life and nature, to play my guitar in a beautiful meadow. Dylan has always been there for me in times of strife and when he said, "he not busy being born is busy dying" that really changed my life. In my mind I am dying right now. Moving to a commune gives me a chance for rebirth and rejuvenation.

    So to sum up, indeed it may be horrific and horrible at the commune, but my current situation right now isnt working, so I need to do something about it. The commune is a way to do this

    As an alternative: If you've got a degree then you can move out to a small village in either South Korea or Japan and teach English.

    And for the record: I gave up reading newspapers about a year ago. I came to see them for waht they are - mental junk food. It's an easy thing to do. Just stop buying them.
  • miller8966
    miller8966 Posts: 1,450
    It seems your kind of nostalgic for the 60's. There over.

    you need to move on.
    America...the greatest Country in the world.
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    miller8966 wrote:
    It seems your kind of nostalgic for the 60's. There over.

    you need to move on.

    He doesn't need to do anything. If he has a deep interest in the 60's that his business. There are plenty of less worthy things to have an interest in than one of the seminal era's of our time. I say good luck to him.
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,296
    Running away from your problems is always your best bet.

    If you truly care about people, and changing the world for the better (which I assume you do because you keep saying you are depressed about the world's problems and injustices), then moving to a commune is about the most selfish thing you can do.

    "There are so many problems in the world today, what am I to do? I know, I'll move into a hippy commune and I'll just pretend the problems don't exist by not watching tv or reading a newspaper. Problems solved."

    From reading this and numerous other threads that you have posted, it seems like you aren't ready to leave your college bubble and enter society. Well, everybody has problems. Deal with them and move on. Sorry.
  • dg1979us
    dg1979us Posts: 568
    bootlegger10 wrote:
    Running away from your problems is always your best bet.

    If you truly care about people, and changing the world for the better (which I assume you do because you keep saying you are depressed about the world's problems and injustices), then moving to a commune is about the most selfish thing you can do.

    "There are so many problems in the world today, what am I to do? I know, I'll move into a hippy commune and I'll just pretend the problems don't exist by not watching tv or reading a newspaper. Problems solved."

    From reading this and numerous other threads that you have posted, it seems like you aren't ready to leave your college bubble and enter society. Well, everybody has problems. Deal with them and move on. Sorry.


    I have to agree. If you are really that concerned with the world's problems then work to fix them, not run away and hide from them.

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