Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "The Anarchist Commune in the Rainforest: Poole’s Land" video.

  1. Yeesh, I get it that Vice has a drugs kink to it and wanted to paint a pretty picture on this one, but it just comes off as inconsequential at some point. Here's the thing about cults, communes, these self estabilished societies that always claims it's all about freedom to live how they want: be it funded for religious purposes, for philosofical ones, to negate societies as whole among other stuff, you are often bound to find inside these places, often hidden behind some show off talking all about the good life there, the people who are brainwashed and as oppressed as in any other society taking the blunt (no pun intended) of the problems. You have people that are there for good reasons, like addicts trying to cure themselves, or people with traumatic past experiences which led them to escape somewhere else... but just as much you have people that could potentially be there for all the bad reasons. Convicted criminals, people with such a bad history that they don't have anywhere else to go, people who escaped social responsibilities, people who are commiting all range of crimes protected by the relative privacy that these places will give you... you just never know. And for every supposedly good camp as far as the reporter could see and know about, because of course they are not going to show the bad side of it to a reporter that is there to create an image of the place, there are tons and tons of bad cases peppered through the entire history of societies to talk about. These commune like structures tend to be extremely volatile, and more often than not gives rise to all sorts of problematic behaviour because the people there often chose to "escape modern society" of sorts for reasons. While it's for consuming illegal drugs... or natural herbs if they wanna see it that way, it's all good. I'm of course not saying that modern societies are better in all aspects, nor that there's nothing there to make an example of, nor that people shouldn't do it. But this video paints a very specific, focused, biased and misleading image.
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