ibon

i think u ask The question.

How do you just go out and get a group of friends and set up an alternative, departing from the existing paradigm and making it really be viable. It just seems like so much wishful thinking.

1,2,3 at a time.
opportunities/relationships are going to increase as people get aware of how our system is going to crash.

i have had some of these recently, thankfully; as well as disappointments as some i thought of as part of our liferaft see us as being too radical- mostly preparing for a severe, hard crash.

more opportunities with folks will come; & then likely a flood of desperate folks. i'm thinking a core formed with a 'leaver' mindset/principles-as a goal- needs to be established by then.

i say a 'goal' since the transition period will require living both paradims as we are now.

great post. some quibbles, but would be distracting to go there.

re organization, i agree, & have stated such numerous times- never to my memory with a response.

'i think something like dunbar's number 150 or less is max with a high degree of wealth distribution built in. scares me how we might get there, but eventually this is the best 'human' solution for ecology[tragedy of the commons], communication, and wealth sharing.

our time as agrarian is miniscule compared to hunter-gather lifestyle. our primary adaptions genetically are set up within this mode & it fits the ecology of our earth. heaven help us getting there.'

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/5287/492492