Could living in a commune be the cure for society?

While Honeydew is set in the beautiful rolling hills of Italy, it got me thinking: could this model work in urban city centers? I know it sounds a bit crazy given the hustle and density of city life, but I can’t help but wonder if there’s a way to adapt communal living for urban environments. Perhaps through better use of shared spaces, sustainable energy solutions, and technology?

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this—how could we bring these concepts into our cities?

I've been to many communities suicide a toddler, and there's something especial about this video. love the interaction with the community and how they last.

This is how imagine myself living in the second half on my life that has started now. Actively looking for community

So, how does this work? People book a weekend/week/fortnight and if the people already living there like them they can stay forever?

Scum Starmer would want this

The key issue is the fear of loss. In an urban environment you are afraid of losing your possessions, your time, your job, perhaps even your life. But at a place like Honeydew there is no fear of loss. That is why communities like this hardly translate into urban environments.

We tried it in the 70’s , worked for awhile but there’s always a couple who ruin it.

Well, good for them! Hopefully it works out for this project

What concerns me is whether the decison-makers in such communities can answer Tony Benn's 5 essential questions of democracy satisfactorily. These are:
“What power have you got?”
“Where did you get it from?”
“In whose interests do you use it?”
“To whom are you accountable?”
“How do we get rid of you?”
If they can't, then these are not communities within which I would want to live.

This is how I used to live 50 years ago when I was a hippie. I'd love to live this way again but chronic illness means I can't, unless I can find a city or town-based cooperative. Difficult to do in Tasmania.

How does it work regarding EU residency?

Do not join a cult....EVER!

Escaping from the life conditions that you contribute too? Hhhmmm...

Just thought I’d pop over here and remind everyone that the guardian gave high marks to that awful Velma show. Sorry guardian don’t trust you since then.

Here's a practical explanation of my concerns: a community like this takes money to set up and money to keep going. Who provides the money? What do they get in return? Are the people who live in the community customers? What services and/or products are they paying for? Who decides what the price of those services/products? Whe decides what the services/products should be? Who writes the contract? Or: are the people who live their shareholders? If they leave, do they get paid for giving up their share? What happens if the money coming in isn't enough to cover what was agreed or contracted for? Who decides what is to be cut? Or: are the people living there employees? Are they paid money or in goods? Who decides which, and how much of either?

I can totally see why people would like to live like this, for me however living in a commune is an absolute nightmare. I had to live in shared apartments during my studies and I became good friends with my flatmates but I’m an introvert and I’m so immensely happy and grateful that I can afford to live in my own apartment these days without any roommates. I like to meet friends every other day but for the most part I love being alone and I need the silence. So sure, this might be great for some but definitely not for everyone.

Having Been involved in Family Communities since 1952...
Golda M Started DayCare in Milwakee WI ... i was There,
Real Forever Community is YHWH Y'SHUA THE MESSIAH

The Truth is Y'SHUA THE MESSIAH, Kibbutz, Ancient way is Best

My god I thought this was a mockumentary..

It's a fine line between a commune and a cult. It's easy to cross that line. Enjoy your fads, Westerners.

Hmmm....there are many critiques, obvious ones etc, but I'm, thinking how travelers/van life people could exploit this. Another is, if this is successful, how/who will prevent/manage the community growing to big - disrupting the real estate market and duplicating in central Italy what we see in Barcelona with overtourism / airbnb?
This is also different / but also the same as silicon valley giants wanting to buy up land to build their very own society - regardless of their neighbors or who already occupies the land.

No!

I'm ready to go, who wants to join me? 🙂

commune or communism?

“we’re anticapitalist! that’s why i sold my apartment and bought a hotel on a billion acres of land and also recently put a yoga hall in it…what’s capitalism to do with that??” god save us

what a fk nightmare

I always wanted to live in a commune, but I was always afraid that it was just going to turn into some weird Cult😂..

Neverending options to go off the deep end. Welcome to America.

MOST people couldn't live like this. THAT BEING SAID, some people thrive under these conditions. Luckily, here in the USA, people are welcome to live like that. The only problem is that they want to force the rest of us to live as they think we should.

Just stop spraying the skies

How many communes have an actual extended lifespan?

All of the ones I've heard about end up flying apart at the seams - the wrong people try to take power, no social mechanism for controlling do-nothings and parasites. Nobody wants to do the hard jobs like cleaning the toilets(or not for long, because no respect from others). The only answer is a totalitarian government/ruling body, and violence to enforce the rules.

The usual interpersonal interactions on a micro-scale that have caused communist nations to collapse into a pile of rubble.

Maybe work the water sourcing before the Yoga room.

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Some people prefer this lifestyle over the insane and brutally unfair rat race that you have extremely little chance of winning.

This could end badly. Good luck to them though. Also, vaccinate the kids please.

First of all, the most tried and tested commune has historically been the blood ties and affinitive bonds of family. If you are not satisfied with that and set out to "deconstruct" your culture's manifestation of kinship, you are destined to fail in whatever experimental substitute you devise. Beyond the kinship level of families, whether extended or nuclear, voluntary or enforced communes never last long when they are based on secular-rationalist principles, which fail to address the core problems of humanity, like greed, individualism, and vanity. Think of the Amish, or Christian holy orders, or the Buddhist orders. Ask yourself why it is that the monastic orders in Russia survived 70 years of Soviet persecution and saw the demise of every kind of collectivist institution founded on secular-rationalist ideology; the social experiments come and go, flawed and ephemeral; but those communities that have endured for centuries and millennia were and remain founded on spiritual authority sourced in a supreme authority of an eternal and cosmic nature, not on contemporary and highly unstable conceptions founded on "humanism".

ONly for the feckless lazy rich!

I just think everyone would hate me.....I hate this guy and im not there lol

4 hour days are genius

Now lets hear about community living that is wellcoming to neuro spicy folks and those who need to spend a lot of time by themselves to function

This feels a lil culty not going to lie lol

It's actually great to see a documentary maker who's disabled/impaired, as it's rare to see, and personally gives me a boost of confidence. ✌🏾

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LOL at the scene of the rebellious chickens being herded back to where they "belong." I once lived in a commune with over 20 people crammed into a small house—bunk beds inside, pods in the backyard, and seasonal squatters sleeping on the floor. That kind of forced togetherness isn’t the answer. A better approach is tiny homes with decent-sized yards, allowing individuals, groups, or families to maintain their privacy, independence, and autonomy while still having the option to engage with a community on their own terms.
The commune in this video is lucky to be surrounded by nature—that alone makes a big difference. But no matter how ideal the setting, AUTONOMY IS ESSENTIAL. Too often, "community" is something people feel obligated to conform to rather than something they freely choose. Forced unity only breeds resentment.

too much bureaucracy

Ben Ramm
sus character, evasive af
wants to create a brand and franchise