Concerning a proposal (not by me) to make a “strategic withdrawal” from public life in order to restore the imagined virtues of the Middle Ages.
What in the 1960s was a commune is now an intentional community. I lived in one in the mid-1990s, when I was in graduate school.
We were six persons, and when one of us needed to be replaced, we advertised ourselves as a cooperative vegetarian group-house. Continue reading
Polytropy 