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Mountain Top
A new kind of school for a new kind of world.
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April 26, 2008 at 1:11 pm
John Channon
You have presented and projected some of your ideas for a new culture and the community to sustain it. It appears that you are a leader in need of followers. There is one aspect that I haven’t seen addressed: religion. Before you consider how everything has to work, you should focus on the belief system that will be required for a foundation. There must be ideals that everyone can live by before the first rule can be expected to be followed. A new social structure must be attainable before it can become sustainable. I like your enthusiasm and I understand your motivation. I respect your desires, but this a very great undertaking. As you know, there is much more involved than the concepts to be formulated and the plans being executed. Another question would be about how you plan to protect everything. Thank you for taking time and providing resources for discussion. I would like to contribute whatever I can.
April 27, 2008 at 12:44 am
mountaintopschool
Actually, we don’t need followers. We need companions. Followers are easy, but not very helpful. The Mountain Top School needs participants, not just people going along. None of us can do this alone, and people just going along do not really contribute.
We have reached a general consensus thus far to not endorse any established belief system. Anyone interested in Mountain Top is likely to share a certain degree of respect for the land and our connection to it.
I have actually done a lot of work regarding social structures, but we thought it premature to post them as if everything were decided. Once Mountain Top has more participants we can get a really good dialog about social organization, but until then we thought it more likely to push people away then to bring people in. We might have been wrong.
There has been some substantial discussion about protection in a variety of different situations.
We know how great an undertaking this is. And if our work comes to full fruition how grand it really is will astonish generations. But first things first. We need interested participants who share the same need for a sustainable life that we have.
If you want to talk more, the forums are really better suited for a long discussion.
- Benjamin Shender