Paulville?
Here's an idea I think we'll see more of in the future. Small, self-selecting groups will organize themselves into self-regulating communities -- like this one:
The goal of Paulville.org it to establish gated communities containing 100% Ron Paul supporters and or people that live by the ideals of freedom and liberty.
The process is forming a co-op of people buying shares in the community and these people would be granted land use at a minimum of 1 acre per share, for as long as they homesteaded the land. The community would be privately held by the co-op to establish private property for the general community thus preserving the community is 100% freedom and liberty lovers.
Seeing as how the Homeowners' Associations at most gated communities are composed of nit-picky control freaks with toooooo much time on their hands, an association of libertarians sounds pretty good.
posted by Michael Tuggle @ Thursday, May 08, 2008
12 Comments
12 Comments:
After looking at the Paulville.org website, is anyone considering a community in upstate South Carolina?
I think this is an interesting experiment (the so-called "intentional community"). Although I am sympathetic to it, my view is that almost all of these communities will fail. It violates the bedrock conservative principle of organic development.
Community--real community--must arise naturally out of ties of kinship, religion, language, and culture.
This experiment seems to be based purely on Enlightenment principles--"let's pick up stakes and move into a community that's based on an idea". I think this works in the case of religion, and I know of some successful religious "intentional communities". But libertarianism as an idea on which to base a community is pretty thin gruel: "Let's go out and start an artificial community based on the anti-communal principle of 'leave me the heck alone!'".
If that idea is the only thing these people will have in common, then I predict disaster. And I predict disaster for truly conservative reasons. True community must be based upon some shared world-view; it can't be artificially engineered. Just look at Iraq.
anonymous,
You know, I haven't heard anything from them in some time. Claiming a chunk of land and focusing on it and it alone was a winning strategy for the Jews who re-established Israel, so why wouldn't it work for us?
brad c,
All valid points. My best response is that since the forces of globalism, aided by a government it practically owns, are forcibly destroying genuine communities, only such an otherwise artificial effort can stop them.
Think of Hannah Arendt's observation that in a post-modern world, we must all dive deep to reclaim the remnants of our heritage.
And then there was Allen Tate's call to action in I'll Take My Stand:
"How may the Southerner take hold of his Tradition?
The answer is, by violence.
... Reaction is the most radical of programs; it aims at cutting away the overgrowth and getting back to the roots."
Great point. My wife and I are both more traditional than our parents, which was the result of a conscious choice. In a sense, that's not very traditional, but in another sense it is.
I hate to say it, but this sounds like a ripoff of the E.F. Schumacher Society communities.
jamesvkruse,
Probably true. I think Mr. Schumacher's ideas are going to have a profound impact on the next few decades. MCT
Anonymous
I certainly hope and believe that this community would refer to its location as being in the
UPPPCOUNNNNTRRRRYYYYY!!!!!
By God!!!
Its Upcountry and not Up(Chuck) state..a term the media, the Chamber pot crowd ( mostly Yankees ), and no nothings who have heard the term over and over and are so inundated it rolls off of their tongues as habitual.
Upstate is in New York state..NOT SC. I am passionate and on a mission to restore the ancestral name so that everyone in the Upcountry will quit using that YANKEE term!
PS You do not hear our LOWCOUNTRY brothers/sisters using the term Lowstate..now have you?..
pawmetto,
Try to be forgiving. We've all been brainwashed with Yankee talk, and I'll admit to slipping up myself from time to time.
Although you're absolutely right in what you say, and we all do need someone to remind us when we slip.
The Fundamental Latter-day Saints (Mormons) tried this in Texas, and look what is happening to them.
Mark Slater
communities are..........the plan of the fed gov. and developers to make room here in the entire south to move more northerners in and it has taken it's toll just look around. Have you ever been to any northern states, well I thought I never would either, but Im glad I did cause now I see how they live up there and it opened my eyes to whats going on here, Have you ever seen their neighborhoods?...they're massive and houses are jammed together within a brooms reach....anyway, I can tell you alot.
Yeah I agree with pawmetto.......if you're a real southerner, and have ever heard enough about NY , then you probably know that an upstate NY exsists, and have heard them mention it,, at least on TV. All northerners know about upstate NY. BUT we've nevvvvvvvvver had the habit of using that term here!
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