https://areomagazine.com/2018/03/08/why-utopian-communities-fail/

Community movement really started in the 60s, but the movement is going down curve since then.

478 intentional communities since the 1820s have now shrunk  to 112 worldwide in the last 30 year

Pursuit of spiritual growth has been converted to a world of narcissistic self-obsession

a form of obsessive self-focusing and self-policing, which, it turns out, corporations are very happy to encourage.

Most ‘Utopian’ communities are fanatically against traces remained of capitalist society, which turns them to close-minded extremists

The overriding idea is that if Utopia is attempted without the very best and most ethical of the species (without behavioral engineering, mind alteration and eugenics), then new members will carry in contamination from the old world and destroy the Utopia.

Suffering-imposing, vegan ‘Breathenarianist’ cult

Project never gets finished: ‘All Utopias are static’ - H.G. Wells

No Power, No Democracy — ‘the tyranny of structurelessness’

‘Democracy’ - consensus voting - ‘stamping out of all individual expressions’

artificial and heavily enforced “love everyone equally” ethos

Modifying human behaviors so they match the ‘Utopia’ community - ‘Hutterites, Shakers, Quakers and Amish’

Intentions are not enough