utopian community
Perfect society experiment
A utopian community is a group of people living together according to shared ideals of a perfect society.
These intentional communities pursue visions of harmony, equality, or spiritual purity that members believe mainstream society lacks.
Historical examples include religious communes, socialist experiments, and back-to-the-land movements.
Most utopian communities eventually dissolve when idealism collides with human nature: The utopian community lasted only three years before factional disputes tore it apart.
- idealismBelief in noble principles
- social experimentStaged scenario studying reactions
- collectivismGroup primacy doctrine
- cooperativeJointly operated enterprise
- transcendentalismIntuition-based idealist philosophy
eco-village · egalitarianism · intentional living · communitarianism · alternative lifestyle · off the grid · shared economy · Shakers · simple living · shared values · socialism · anarchism · pacifism · self-sufficiency · humanism · free love · spiritual retreat · environmentalism
- historic placesghost town, old town, ancient city, colonial town, historic district
- collective settlementskibbutz, colony, cooperative, ecovillage, cohousing
- communal livingcollective, kibbutz, cohousing, ecovillage, shared housing
- Communescommunes, kibbutz, Hutterites, ecovillage, collective living
- shared housingroommate, roommates, housemate, flatmate, houseshare
- collectivismcollectivism, collective, hivemind, herd mentality, pack mentality
utopian communitydystopia
Imaginary terrible society
hellhole · failed state · police state · prison camp · concentration camp
utopian communitydystopia
Imaginary terrible society
police state · surveillance state · Brave New World · authoritarian regime · oppressive regime
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