So, I got a really dumb question, which is based on some of the more recent bantering's going on here:
Is the goal of this STP community to be like - STP's version of an intentional community ??
Because of some of the recent posts over the past couple of months, this subject of intentional communal living [which I never heard of before...] has kind of struck a chord inside of me.
Part of me thinks is a great idea - a community of like minded individuals, all living together for a common goal, but what happens when someone decides to join up, and then starts to interject their own views or ideas ??
I think it's an important question, and it can be applied to many things - even neighborhoods.
Where I currently live, it's been my home among other things since late July 1991.
The neighborhood then was primarially Polish and working class.
And it was on the wonkey side too - but it was super safe, and it was the perfect place to set up plans to build a home recording studio - where live music with full bands was possible.
As of late, the neighborhood has been changing, people been moving in and not because they want to be a part of what once was [which was my reason...] but because of what they can make it in to.
So now, you get this new homeowner from Peru, who is ok with trash being deposited everywhere, and he has a real hatred of trees and is cutting down every tree in sight, which is enraging me beyond belief.
So, if this was a type of intentional community - could the long time residents rise up and throw him and his ilk out ??
The thing that worries me about any kind of community is when the original vision changes, and it's not for the better - although I am certain that is subjective as well, because who gets to say what is right and wrong.
The CRASS ethos from what I remember - I'm going back to the mid 1980s now, was "do what you want to do, be who you want to be", and their version of anarchy was just that - as long as no living being was hurt or harmed in any way.
This is something I could get completely on board with.
One of the STP people whose name escapes me - he just got a warning for appparently not playing nicely with other's - it seems to me that he is trying very hard to find the right place, the right scene - and there seems to be a pattern where he does indeed check different groups and scenes out, but it sounds like he try's to interject his own views and values on people who have been living a certain way, and that to me is 100% wrong.
You can't just walk up and say you people are all fucked.
Where I am going with this - is how would the STP community work ??
Would it be a free for all kinds of misfits like maybe The Slabs on a way smaller scale, or would it be more along the lines of the CRASS Dial House which Penny Rimbaud put together back in the 1970s, and is still going - I believe - today.
It would really suck to get something going only to see it get destroyed.
That's why talking about this rather than jumping in head first is probably not a bad idea.
Anarchy Peace LOVE and Freedom
