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Book III: Creating Climax Civilization

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Climax Civilization 101

A new holistic social evolution theory based on the biological succession climax pattern seen in the natural world.

New Communitarian Models                                                                                                                                                                                                    Communiversities, the Communitarian Village Proposal, the Communergy System, Gardenville, and Chateau Marmoset are various cooperative community concepts I have proposed or engaged in in past years.

They are only models for new communitarian social structures and not blueprints for reproducing exact replicas. Time and circumstances determine the appropriate communitarian systems. But I believe they are good beginning models and present new ways of organizing our communities.

After struggling for several years trying to actualize two of these structures, Communiversities and a Communitarian Village, I have come to the conclusion that intentional communities are extremely hard to organize if people desire to do it themselves democratically.

This is probably why most surviving intentional communities are tightly run religious communities where decision-making is left to a small council of elders or the community's spiritual leader.

Figuring out a way of setting up a co-operative community that is still loose enough for allowing individual self-determination like the freedom we have living in the mostly chance arrangements of existing towns and cities is the key issue for me these days.

Cooperative decision-making in intentional communities striving to be democratic can sometimes be so unbearably difficult that people just give up or get fed up with other people trying to run their lives for them. This problem was a killer one for the commune, Lime Saddle, that I and my first wife helped organize in 1971.

Power trips abounded and it doesn't surprise me any longer that the 1960's and '70's communal movement went the way of the dinosaurs. The trick for communitarians today is figuring out how to co-operatize existing communities or build new ones that can figuratively fly, that can rise above petty bickering and still provide the benefits of cooperative lifestyles.

Below are listed the new community visions I have had and worked to bring to reality with various degrees of success and failure.

Communitarian Activism

Radically wrong activists have corrupted the environmental movement by substituting Leftist ideology in place of ecology. Radically wrong activists have frozen the counterculture revolution at the protest level instead of going beyond protest to development truly workable cooperative community alternatives to the corporate capitalist system. Listed below are new social change visions and proposals.

 Economic Change Proposals

Environmental Projects

Tribal-Communitarian Alliance projects

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