I read an article at enoughenough.org about a house. It’s called Reflections from a Homownersexual – Buying and Selling a House with Anti-Capitalist Intentions. But honestly I was mostly interested in the part in-between buying and selling, the part about living.
“All of the people who lived in the house also worked on house-fixing projects, and there was an explicit agreement that both working on the house and paying “rent” were investments in the house, that the worth of the house belonged to all who invested in it, and that if the house was never sold that investment was a more philosophical one, a gift of community-building for the future people who would live in the house.”
My utopian (radical? I mean it’s not to me, but I have been informed that I am not a good judge of what is or isn’t radical) dream is to live in a huge house filled with people. I want to have a house where people can come and go or stay forever.With people who are committed, short term or longer, to the house and the idea, and not just living together because they are poor students. My only problem is I mostly/only know people who are living with their significant other and aren’t interested in living with more people, or are on the fast track to moving in with a significant other. And I mean, that’s totally fine! It only means I am on the lookout for new friends who are interested in communal living. Or whatevr.
Neko Case. Can’t. Stop.
re. that gay marriage thing:
And I found the Thomas the tank engine/50 cent mashup from this summer. Best ever! :
3 Comments
April 12, 2009 at 15:09
I would have big trouble getting it on in a house full of friends. Just saying. It would be great for people in celibacy – or exhibitionists
April 12, 2009 at 22:21
Oh wow, really? Well you guys probably don’t want to join my house of debauchery then
Guess I’ll just have to strike you off my list of potentials!
April 13, 2009 at 22:45
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