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The current generation has created kin’s settlements due to the developed eco-consciousness. The elite has returned to the land - there are few settlers who do not have higher education and do not think creatively. It is the great intellect that allowed them to realize why the system is a dead end, so we need an alternative.
Now, pay attention. To continue the idea of kin’s settlements, the second generation will need intelligence not lower than yours. Megre's ideas presuppose ecological consciousness. And this is, firstly, a higher intelligence in comparison with technocratic ones. And secondly, this consciousness should be specially nurtured in children.
Are you preparing a replacement for yourself?
Education by nature
There is an opinion that the space of love will bring up a new consciousness by itself. One should not interfere, and nature will create a perfect intellect. It is indeed convenient to leave children to the forest and stay in harmony with the universe and weave wreaths from dandelions.
However, eco-consciousness is not a new consciousness, but a development of the previous one, a new floor, a superstructure over techno-mind. Therefore, if we rely on nature alone, the second generation will intellectually lag behind the first, and the third generation will lag behind the second. The second generation will hardly understand Megre's thoughts. And the third generation will not even understand what it is about: there will be nothing to think about. Their neurons will become a haphazard mass.
Then what? The system will suck the grandchildren back in like a vacuum. Why? Because they'll be intellectually inferior to the urban population. And evolution, I remind you, is the evolution of consciousness. The grandchildren will return to the system, they will enter the mortgage, prestigious consumption, because it is cool. Subsequent generations, perhaps, will revive the intelligence of great-grandmothers and will go to build ancestral settlements again. But again they will face the problem of the second generation, which has not yet been solved.
The conclusion is this. The intelligence of the new generation must always exceed the intelligence of the parents. To put it differently, children, having reached their twenties, should be intellectually ahead of their peers in Moscow and St. Petersburg with their super-technological consciousness. Then the intellectually strong patrimonial environment will draw in the urban environment, and not vice versa.
If you do not win against the System intellectually, you will lose in everything else.
The system is holding
Few tribal kin’s settlements create their own schools. Most children are taken to rural schools, which provide traditional education, but worse than in the city. Many settlers do not spend winter in their kin’s domains because of the prospect of 'forest schools' for their children. As for higher education, it is simply not possible to get it in the kin’s settlement.
Let's say your talented child dreams of the sky. He will finish school in the city and go to university there to learn how to build spaceships or look through a telescope. He will probably spend the summer with his parents in their kin’s domain and learn something even there. After university, of course, he will want to realize his dreams of the sky. He'll go to work building spaceships. He will spend his vacations again in the kin’s settlement, quiet dreams in the lunch break there too.
Closer to retirement he will probably move to the kin’s domain. But does that mean that he has developed the kin’s domain? No, it doesn't. Because he will not create a friendly family, children's voices will not ring in his home. He'll spend all his youth in a city apartment. So, he will continue depopulation, not settlement business. And kin’s settlements will remain the occupation of pensioners.
At the same time, his peer, who has lived in the kin’s settlement since childhood and studied nearby in the village, continues his kin’s settlement life. He makes stoves, weaves baskets, and can make a barrel. In a word, he canvasses his intellect. That means that he is also moving away from the ideas of eco-life, but in a different direction. After all, the parental intellectual consciousness has already been lost.
An intellectually rich environment is necessary for the future generation to be mentally developed. The more sources of information - the higher the development. This means that it is desirable for the kin’s settlement child to get knowledge not only from parents, the Internet and friends, but also from the entire older environment. Without a developed society, the children's outlook will narrow from generation to generation.
What are we identifying? The main activity in the kin’s settlements should not be agricultural at all. It is necessary to fight for the intelligence of the second generation.
An alternative
Let us assume that we realized the problem of the second generation and created a school in the kin’s settlement. We did not duplicate the traditional school, but taught the children to think, first of all, creatively, and secondly, ecologically. Therefore, the intelligence of the youth is somewhat different. So we kept the second generation in the kin’s settlement until the age of seventeen. And besides, we attracted parents to winter in the kin’s settlement, as there are no school difficulties now.
What next? And then our talents will again say goodbye to their relatives with tears and go to universities. And kin’s settlements will still remain a lot of tired pensioners.
In other words, the creation of the kin’s settlement schools does not solve the problem of the second generation, but only postpones it. Our talents continue to realize themselves anywhere but in kin’s settlements.
The prospect of the kin’s settlement movement seemed quite sad until the unexpected happened. A university appeared on the basis of the school in Tekos. And this already looks like an alternative. There are four faculties in the university. It's an officially recognized diploma-granting institution. But it's an alternative institution.
Of course, graduates of the few university faculties will be able to realize themselves on the land, in the kin’s settlement. It's unlikely that a surgeon would want to put plantains on patients' wounds. It is also difficult to be engaged in, say, molecular biology, nanotechnology. But history, eco agronomy, alternative energy, unconventional healing, arts and crafts, all pedagogy - yes. And these faculties should be given to kin’s settlements students. Then a certain percentage of them will stay in the kin’s settlements and will join the ranks of teachers of kin’s settlement schools and universities. A certain sprout of a new civilization will take root - it will be strengthened and survive on its own.
So, kin’s settlements will survive if they become not only family nests, but also educational centers. Ideally, each kin’s settlement should have an educational center, where one can enroll from any other tribal settlement.
A perfect future
Let's dream. We have founded similar universities, and each community is now an educational center with its own methodology. Some even earn money not by excursions to their vegetable gardens, but by eco-education. After all, many people in the city even now do not mind giving their own children to an inexpensive school with alternative pedagogy.
Who will teach in educational centers? Who but us. After all, there is no money for teachers in the communities, and leisure life is our asset. So, all settlers are obliged to realize themselves in pedagogy somehow. Remember, dig into yourselves: everyone loves and knows how to do something, even if not professionally. Everyone has unexpressed hobbies that may have been dismissed as non-commercial. It's time to share: tell a story in the first grade, take them for a walk in the woods. Start simple - with elementary school. All subjects are taught by one teacher. Or a summer eco-camp.
Even better, specify in the charter that it should accept neighbors who are willing to develop the eco-intelligence of the community.
Land can be bought after two winterings and successful lessons with children. Sports and drawing, foreign language and technology - to whom what is closer. If someone is not able to take care of the second generation - do not take him. He may speak correctly and generally be a good guy, but - there is no future with him.
If you succeed, you will form an intellectually strong environment that will assimilate the urban one. And, perhaps, you will pull the country behind you, "reboot" the people. If you can't, then I'm sorry. After all, except for you there are no other forces of revival in Russia. So suddenly all the stars have converged on you.
In kin’s settlements there should be conditions for the realization of eco-intellect of already grown up representatives of the second generation.
