Kristen Ghodsee, author of Everyday Utopia, talks about the benefits of communal living—or at least of embracing a broader definition of community.
OK. Well, given that, as you said, most people can't just run off and join a commune, how do you think someone who is living in a more traditional situation might nonetheless start to integrate more aspects of community living?I really liked what she said about the grocery store during the pandemic—how it would just be so easy to disappear behind a screen and do all of your ordering online.
They were forced to get to know the people around them and make relationships with them. And that was unintentional community that could become very tight knit. Today we have much more opportunity to travel, to uproot ourselves and move to a different place, to seek out the people with whom we have things in common online. We have opportunities to create intentional community, but it's harder in some ways, or at least it's harder, I think, to make it lasting.
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