Sky Blue found his proper place in the world when he was 19, a college dropout who visited a Virginia commune called Twin Oaks. Fifteen years later, he’s still there, amid a thriving mini-society spread out over 450 acres of farmland, gardens, woods and small factories.
Twin Oaks was created to demonstrate how a completely classless society could work, and Blue was attracted to a life that might offer him an alternative to the drudgery of dutiful moneymaking he felt was the sole goal of his education
None of the typical totems of adulthood are necessary for life in Twin Oaks. But that doesn’t mean that the common burdens of adulthood don’t creep in – like the economy.
Still, he didn’t intend to stay long. He’d grown up knowing Twin Oaks existed – in fact, his parents had met there – and he figured that he’d explore a range of alternatives to mainstream existence before settling on one. But after three years he had a son, and a deeper commitment to the community’s project of egalitarianism. Continuer la lecture de Communes still thrive decades after the ’60s, but economy is a bummer, man