Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Life on a kibbutz in Israel" video.

@dirkdiggler8325 Correct. Ju####m is not really an ethnicity, it's a religion. I've asked a few of them about this conundrum, and some can't seem to explain it.
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@dirkdiggler8325 I think that some of them actually tried to create an ethnicity by not marrying outside their culture and religion. The Cohen families (high priests/rabs), especially, were famous for this, and intermarrying with outsiders is still frowned upon. Weird, I know, but that is the way it is. I think that this is the root of the ethnicity claim. Culture and geographic area does have much to do with it.
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I thought about the same thing myself, but didn't want to come out and say it.
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There's nothing wrong with a kibbutz, if people want to live that way. However, besides a few other agrarian religious sects (Amish, Mennonite, etc), they seem to always fail, going back to the days of Robert Owen and Owenism. Owen's son wrote about what occurred, and how the worst dregs of society showed up to live there; looking for others to keep them up. I'll bet many in the US do not know about Robert Owen. The main problem is, that a few with this ideology, especially the anarchists, always wish to force that lifestyle on society as a whole, and they're generally violent, and of a criminal element. Though some were zealots, and even wished to bring about the end of the world, for their utopian golden age to reappear. The thing is, there was never a utopian golden age that existed, and there have always been those who wanted to rule over others, starting with the earliest tribal leaders with the hunter-gatherers. Anarchists have always been the root of the problem behind utopianism, and one could honestly make the claim, by their profiles, that they are or were, either violent psychopaths or sociopaths. One can see this in the history of Brooklyn, and how some from this ideology ended up becoming organized criminals after the late 1800s. It was the same people that murdered Nicholas II, and McKinley. I've even witnessed them claiming to be religious, when there's not a religious bone in them, and they do not intend on living in a one-room farm house. In other words, they don't practice what they preach.
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It would be the same thing that occurred with Robert Owen at New Harmony, Indiana. Those that showed up were too lazy to work, and several of them were criminals. Owen's son wrote about the disaster that the community became.
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@dirkdiggler8325 About the Kibbutz, read the history of Robert Owen, and the literature written by his son. Owen tried to start one of the first communes, and it failed spectacularly. Some of the people that showed up at New Harmony were lazy, looking for others to keep them up, and there was a criminal element that joined them. Owen's folly fell apart.
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