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The rampant mental illness in the USA really does make this a negative feedback loop. I'd say a quarter of the roommates I've had over the years had some serious mental issues. I've had a knife pulled on me, a friend of mine was murdered by his roommate.
After you have a few bad experiences like that the goal becomes to get a small family together and isolate as soon as possible. Any commune here is basically assumed to be a religious cult because nothing else makes sense.
I have thought of getting some people together to do a Juche style commune where we just go hard on self reliance and try to be entirely left alone, but idk how I'd ever find the people or money to make it happen. Would be cool af tho. Just do like transitionary phases where you slowly become more and more self reliant until basically the only thing you'd need money for is property taxes, and random luxury items. It wouldn't be Juche exactly, but inspired by it for sure.
The unfortunate thing about the internet is all the people who agree with this sentiment are scattered across the globe. You'd have to do flyers in your local community or something
Yeah thats the tough part. Ive thought about doing a like underground commie ring when i start taking classes at college. Could put flyers up with QR codes to add me on something like Briar and vett then add people to a group. Could be useful for meeting likeminded local people and doing some organizing while in school. Just gotta put the flyers up at night with a mask on or something so the school cant link it to me.