Commemune dropouts framed departure as a last-resort necessity, not a flight

Evidence

To a country seemingly entrenched in self-interest, deaf to change and blind to its own danger, they said “Fuck it” and split. If the cities were uninhabitable and the suburbs plastic, they would still have to live somewhere. If the spirit of humane community and culture were dead in urban Amerika, they would have to create their own. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 156

Categorization

• QUESTION: This quote shows commune members saw no alternative to leaving — useful counterpoint to Odell’s claim that refusal in the mind, not space, is the real path. Is she being fair to their situation?
• XREF: connects to: Mixed individuals often fall back on individual mobility rather than collective status strategies — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 71; Low-status group members exit when subcultures offer a destination — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 400; Exit trajectories hinge on a person’s developmental core need — Amy Fisher-Smith, Charles R. Sullivan, John D. Macready, and Geoffrey Manzi, Identity Reconfiguration and the Core…, 855 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Mixed individuals often fall back on individual mobility rather than collective status strategies — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 71; Low-status group members exit when subcultures offer a destination — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 400; Exit trajectories hinge on a person’s developmental core need — Amy Fisher-Smith, Charles R. Sullivan, John D. Macready, and Geoffrey Manzi, Identity Reconfiguration and the Core…, 855 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Flight from one’s situation is itself an assumption of that situation #complicates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1241
• Low-status group members exit when subcultures offer a destination #complicates (0.78) — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 400