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The greater part of what my neighbors call good, I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? --Henry Thoreau

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Saturday, March 11, 2006

Practicing Practical Anarchy

I found this New York Times article interesting.

Maybe you will too. It starts out like this:
ON Aug. 1, 2002, I left behind the comfortably roomy semicircle marked "married-couple household" on the Census Bureau pie chart and slipped into an inconspicuous wedge labeled "two or more people, nonfamily." Having separated from my husband of 28 years the day before, I opened our three-bedroom 1927 Colonial Revival house to a group of men and women less than half my age. Overnight, the home I had lived in for 12 years became a seven-person anarchist collective, run by consensus and fueled by punk music, curse-studded conversation and food scavenged from Dumpsters.
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3 Comments:

Blogger Wadena said...

It encourages me to see people actually living this lifestyle. I'm not sure that I could do it, really, although it might work for me.

It sounds like it worked VERY well for her troubled foster child when nothing else had worked.

Maybe we can take a clue from that.

Deep down, we are tribal creatures, I think.

7:32 AM CST  
Blogger Diane S. said...

Oh God! Do you have a vacancy? I want to move in!

12:24 PM CST  
Blogger Wadena said...

You never know, Diane....there might be one in your town.

Check the website in the article.

:)

3:50 PM CST  

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