hi @Enso, i don't think @dominic is saying everyone should move to a rural environment, i think he's saying the few who are interested should create small intentional solarpunk communities in the countryside. i don't think he's saying there will be no politics in the countryside, i think he's saying smaller communities will have less politics because there are less people and resources to coordinate.

similarly, i've realized the long-term direction i want for my life, i want to support the social movement towards solarpunk trailer parks: how do we use the best of solarpunk principles to create an ecosystem of affordable open source modular portable manufactured homes and village-sized community governance systems.

on the topics being discussed in this thread, i guess i can share some books i've read that helped give me language to my thoughts:

• Reinventing Organizations: why neither flat nor hierarchical structures are good for organizing, how to do a hybrid with the best of both
• The Timeless Way of Building: an introduction to design patterns
• A Pattern Language: a possible implementation of design patterns for fractal living spaces
• Ishmael: what society lost when we moved from hunter-gathering to agriculture, and why it matters today