A commune founder’s anger at the ‘love heap’ triggered his turn to authoritarian design.

Evidence

One morning, he hitched up the horses to collect the sap, which was rapidly dripping into buckets scattered over the property. However, that day the others were taking a trip. When he walked into the farmhouse to get help for the sap run, Woody found everyone rolling in a “love heap” on the floor. He left, furious, and collected the sap himself. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 199

Categorization

• CANDY: The image of a commune founder furiously collecting sap alone while everyone else rolls in a ‘love heap’ is a vivid, tweetable anecdote.
• XREF: connects to: Frustrated civilization resentment is canalized and fused with authoritarian submissiveness
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Frustrated civilization resentment is canalized and fused with authoritarian submissiveness