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The 21st Century Salonnière's avatar

I know the main point here is the big ideas, but I’m distracted by the idea of new cities. The Line looks really interesting. City of Telosa looks really interesting-- although that one almost sounds like an enormous city-size cohousing. If twenty families struggle to agree on blue or teal paint, or whether a patch of flowers is an enhancement or an abomination, I wonder how 50,000 people will agree on all the aspects of what makes a great new city.

True story: once when we lived in cohousing, a newcomer saw a patch of ratty flowers on the walkway, and replaced it with new flowers. It did look better but he was new and didn’t understand everything was done by consensus and the permission of the group.

A lot of people were distressed by the flowers. Series of intense community meetings were held. One resident insisted she felt violated and couldn’t walk past the flowers and ultimately left the community. (We left too, soon after, because it seemed like a crazy house. The rogue flower planter still lives there I think.)

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Kathleen McCook's avatar

I got a Tesla in 2019 and my main reason was to be a little bit of Space X.

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