Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree.

• stickly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not necessarily, but one focused on an extreme primitivist lifestyle probably are. People generally don’t coordinate maximum isolation from society without some ulterior motives.

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    And why not? Society has lots of problems. If people want to live their lives in some alternative way, why shouldn’t they be able to? Why shouldn’t those people be able to gather in one place and form communities, as long as those communities don’t become abusive?

    Abusive power dynamics exist in society writ large. Why do we single out communes and say they’re bad, while we ignore how coercive and manipulative the average corporation is?

    This whole idea that “communes are bad because they remove people from society” is based on the capitalist lie that people need to work and produce value for the owner-caste, and that any other lifestyle is a wasted life.

    Why can’t people who want to be isolated from society be isolated from society?

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