My personal reasons to be in an intentional community
I see competition, conditional benefits, isolation/seclusion, consumerism, ecological disturbance, social degradation, requirement of profit motive to survive, monetary slavery and self centered progress in the current social structure.
As I do not resonate with this way of living and I do not want to contribute to this inharmonious social order. I want to live in different kind of society and culture where I can rejoice my living and work without being in so much of stress for becoming so called successful person.
What kind of community I want to live in?
Community with Cooperative Values
I want to be in a community where I don’t have to compete to survive rather cooperate with others to survive and where the cooperative values are appreciated by the people and thus cooperation becomes the core value for surviving with others and I feel that helps me to operate from emotions than just logic.
Community which is Ownership Free
Ownership of private property and possessions bring disparity which ultimately pushes us to compete with others and break our inner harmony and real brotherhood with others. Hence; I wish to live in community where resources are jointly held and everyone has equal space and access to the properties/resources or services.
Community free of Extrinsic Rewards
The idea of giving monetary valuation or extrinsic reward to work i.e. skill, time, services bring that work under currency valuation and thus we loose the interest of getting intrinsic reward or joy of doing the work out of love and get deviated to extrinsic reward “money” or any kind of incentive, thus we get into a mad rush of accumulating these rewards as they are the only thing in current society which gives a person a sense of security and access to resources and services.
Contribution with intrinsic motivation
A community where I can thrive joyously, in celebration while caring for happiness of all; contributing whatsoever I can do for the community, be it participating in food production, teaching, cleaning a toilet or sweeping.
I would like to live in a community where no work is big or small; be it drawing design of a machinery or cleaning of utensils. All basic work comes as responsibility to everyone in turn, whether one is a poet or a scientist!
Unconditional Acceptance
A community where there is no condition imposed to receive compassion and love and I can be myself without any need to prove my worth.
Free Sharing of Resources
Where no ownership is present in any form be it food, material goods, land or other things.
Not even ownership over ideas or knowledge, where everything is looked upon as a collective gift to be shared among all.
Freedom of Expression
A place; where I can freely express myself as individual without any need to follow any dogma, religion or ideology.
Real Feeling of Brotherhood
Where there is real brotherhood not based on anything but compassion and human values.
Real Feeling of Secured Life
Where I can have a real security of life in terms of acceptance, compassion, care and freedom from challenge of survival
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By Sergey
1. "Why do I want to live in an intentional community?"
2. Why am I not satisfied with the current culture/society or way of living?"
One answer for both questions:
Because I want to live for the sake of what is really needed and valuable to us, without wasting time, effort and nerves to overcome obstacles and barriers raised by other people for profit and stability of their power.
Because I want to get as much as I put in , not less because of the taxes, extra costs, theft, brand value, the cost of advertising and rental of retail space.
Because I want to wake up to the birds singing, but not roaring machines and sirens.
Because I want my children to walk and play under the green trees on the green grass, swim in clean and beautiful ocean, but not on the cracked dirty pavement and not in a smelly river with gasoline stains.
Because I want to bring up my children according to my own ideas about the beauty and spiritual values, but not in accordance with the instructions of the ministries and officials.
Because after all I want to have time for all this, instead of spending each day at the office in the company of other, not stupid, and not bad, but also dissatisfied people who have not yet understood the reasons of it.
Because I want to communicate with the people I like, but not with those I have to.
Because I want to see smiling faces of friends , flowers, trees and blue sky, but not billboards calling to buy more and more, concrete boxes up to the gray-green sky and the mangled remains of trees.
Because I'm bored and not interested in making career, but this is one of the core values in my world, in addition to money, although it is needed only to make more and more money.
Because I want to communicate with people who were born and raised in other continents, because they have beauty that I don’t have and vice versa, but not to hear the echoes of nationalism and fascism, which increasingly appear around.
Because, after all, I want peace in my mind, for only under this condition creativity appears, but in the atmosphere of intense suspicion, constant lies, hypocrisy and double, if not triple standards it is impossible.
Because I just want to live, create and develop, but not to survive, fear and dream about the new iPhone.