on the imperative to create liberatory social forms

https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/410-fall-2021/on-living-in-the-world/

Many years ago, I suggested that Ursula Le Guin’s book Always Coming Home “stirs the deepest longings of our being.” However, I failed to grasp adequately the necessity of reading it in a way that allows our being to be “stirred” in the most practically crucial way, a way that releases our spirit of engaged social creativity. If we read it in such a spirit of communal poesis (radical creativity), we will not merely think about, or even celebrate, liberatory social forms, but also go on to create them — through affinity groups, base communities, ecovillages, and beyond.

Above by John Clark, a communitarian activist and theorist. He is director of La Terre Institute for Community and Ecology, which sponsors educational and organizational programs in New Orleans and on an 88-acre site on Bayou La Terre in the forest of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

(wouldn’t it be great to see the EcoVillage New Jersey project replicate such at the site in Hillsborough?)