30 march 2010

Those of us who gave of our whole selves to try to both warn people and to salvage the project before it was too late have been let know that our input NOW is not solicited or wanted among the residents.  Too bad, because from the git go, the BEST of us, the most intelligent, the most ethical, the most supportive, were attacked, belittled and even threatened by Linda Hunnicutt until we left the group out of discouragement, frustration, anger/resentment, disappointment, grief for the loss of our dreams or fear (or all of the above).

Now, it has apparently been decided that we are STILL not valued enough to consult and include even though some of us have indicated that we would buy back in or whatever if the community reforms and begins at some point to look as if it is viable.  To say that this is shortsighted and unwise is a vast understatement and is probably indicative of the fact that the more things change, the more they stay the same with some individuals.

It is interesting to watch the power struggle as a few try to jump into the chasm created by the removal of the fearless leader.  Actually, there are SEVERAL good and probably qualified people who could head this up, so why not form a "central committee"?  Nobody has to have the power and the glory and the best intentional communities do NOT have an individual at their head.  At this point, they are all running around with their heads up their collective rear ends, making NO progress, blaming each other as well as Linda for all their woes and what a waste of energy they are demonstrating!

There are a few who strive to stay on track and come up with a plan, but they are being shot down as fast as they propose one.  The moderator of one online group has begun taking polls and trying to pin them down to what is they actually DO want and how they propose to make it happen.  Maybe this will bear fruit.  But, I fear it will be impossible to revive this because they were mainly followers of a strong personality, the scam artist extraordinaire - Linda Hunnicutt, ideal cult members who couldn't/wouldn't see the problems with her philosophies and the means she was using to promulgate them.  They NEVER had the qualities necessary to plan and develop a community such as they envisioned, though they were willing to work like slaves to make it happen.  It was kind of dreadful to watch them expounding "freedom" while trading their lives away to blindly follow the policies of a mad woman, a sociopathic monster who sees other human beings only as means to her own ends.

I am tempted to completely wash my hands of this, but I confess to a certain amount of curiosity as to how it will all come out in the end.  I think I can SEE how it will be, I hope I am wrong.  In the meantime, let me wish them all "GOOD LUCK"!  They are certainly going to need it, having nothing else of substance on their side.

DreamWeaver