 Having reached this point of development, from a modern context, if we try to artificially create community by putting ourselves in a situation where we do need each other to survive, it kind of feels fake, like you can set up your intentional community and go off grid and go low-tech and say, yeah, now we depend on each other. But in the back of your mind, you know you could probably rejoin the rest of society and meet your needs with money. You don't really need each other, you're just pretending to need each other. There needs to be a satisfying answer to why are we doing this? It has to be more than getting to know each other or, quote, having community. That's not community. You can't have community be the motivation for community. There has to be some other aim that you're all willing to commit to.