Thursday, May 1, 2008

Utopic Communities: Paulville


(adopt-a-texan.net)

I don't know very much about Ron Paul, besides that he is a Libertarian, and that I was once told that he is so conservative he is now considered by some to be liberal. Whatever that means.

His supporters have a dream, and it is Paulville. Here's from their website:

"The goal of Paulville.org it to establish gated communities containing 100% Ron Paul supporters and or people that live by the ideals of freedom and liberty.

The process is forming a co-op of people buying shares in the community and these people would be granted land use at a minimum of 1 acre per share, for as long as they homesteaded the land. The community would be privately held by the co-op to establish private property for the general community thus preserving the community is 100% freedom and liberty lovers. The community votes on all community efforts, such as utilities etc. However no one is forced to consume these utilities and or pay for them, AKA people can be off grid on their share of land. This is in line with the ideals that you're free to live your life the way you want and not be forced to do or pay for other people's life styles you may not agree with."

Apparently a community already exists in West Texas (Ron Paul is a Congressman from Texas, something else I didn't know). You can read about the community in West Texas (here).

Thanks to Marion for this.

1 comment:

  1. Why don't people realize that there's not only beauty in diversity - it's also absolutely necessary. In the same way that a diverse gene pool is necessary for a healthy population, a diverse idea pool is also necessary. Sequestering like-minded people in a commune breeds insanity and fundamentalism.

    The only thing Ron Paul and I agree on is that we shouldn't have invaded Iraq.

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