[kimmie7]

I grew up close to one of the remaining ones...it was called Cornucopia. Those nutcases would skip down the street holding hands -- while the leaders were making their drug deals. It closed when I was still pretty young, but the compound remained for a long time. Until it was purchased...it's a jail now. Upon reflection, it was a jail then as well.

[GeronL]

They have been trying this 'experiment' for a thousand years or more and it has never worked. NEVER. The first colonists to this continent tried it for a couple of years before throwing it out when they almost starved.

It cannot work because its illogical and stupid.

[KangarooJacqui]

I grew up close to one of the remaining ones...it was called Cornucopia. Those nutcases would skip down the street holding hands -- while the leaders were making their drug deals. It closed when I was still pretty young, but the compound remained for a long time. Until it was purchased...it's a jail now. Upon reflection, it was a jail then as well.

Woah... that must have been an eye-opener. My childhood was practically idyllic in comparison (ah, good old white-bread middle-class nineteen-seventies and eighties outer-suburban Australia... nice place to grow up in, but I don't ever want to live there again).

It took my first job, at a central city Burger King, to truly open my eyes. We had hookers working out of our bathrooms, homeless people washing up in there, drug addicts shooting up in there... but seeing that sort of thing at eighteen is different to seeing it at five or six years of age. My sympathies.