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If we survive as a species, a lot of the changes that have to be made are already starting to happen -- such as the Re-localization Movements (especially when it comes to growing food, in many regions there has been a quiet, rarely reported move away from agribusiness to growing and buying food locally. Energy costs and resource scarcities are going to force changes that may make life in a few generations look almost exactly as it did prior to the Industrial Revolution.
When it comes to communes and communal organization, that was the standard way of organizing family life until about 10,000 years ago, and worth noting that according to more recent anthropological evidence, most early settled communities did not establish patriarchal hierarchies as in the example of the city states of Sumer. In the Indus Valley during that time, cities such as Mohenjo Daro and Harappa were enforcing some degree of conformity as houses in the early period of those cities all followed the same floor plans; there were no palaces or temples, and what's known about family life indicates that they were matrilocal (men went to live with their wife's family after marriage). A lot of the changes we have accepted as products of civilization are in fact products of barbarian invasions...since warrior cultures tended to be patriarchal and extremely hierarchal....and I'm way off topic now so I'll stop here and make a note to post a topic on ancient civilizations at some time in the near future.
"Re-localization movement" LOLOLOL
That has been mankind's survival strategy since we evolved. Migrate to the food, the resources, the jobs. The last major migrations took place in the US during the Industrial Revolution and then from farms to cities in the 40s-50s. So it's nothing new and makes total sense. And that's also why it BS that people say that they dont have a choice when they work for years at Walmart.
As for communal living...have at it. I believe in socialism or any other basis for an economic system as long as it's not our govt doing it. Coops and socialist-type businesses and orgs can do very well economically. There are some very good models, for both services and goods. I'm all for it, as long as it remains private and not something the govt forces on us.