Atlas Urbium

A catalog of experiments in collective living

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Read about the factors that created tensions between Shakers and their neighbours and how these were addressed over time.

“Together but Apart” now on mirror: https://t.co/4NtKZKhVui

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Shakers reduced their proselytizing activities during the early 1800s. If before they had to go out and sell a vision, now they had a tangible model that brought people to them. The wealthy villages were a testament in themselves.

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Shakers during their growth century were productive well in excess of their frugal needs. What was not used to reinvest in their businesses or charity went into the acquisition of agricultural and forested land.

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Towards their Civil War peak, the constant acquisition of parcels and growing land empire made neighboring communities and host states fearful that Shakers would acquire regional land monopolies.

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Read more about the factors that created tensions between Shakers and their neighbors, and the ways in which these were addressed over time: https://t.co/4NtKZKhVui

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Having extirpated childrearing and other gendered responsibilities that came with a normative family, Shakers were able to organize a society in which men and women had equal rights and decisional power.

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It was yet another reason why people of the world judged Shakers as living ‘unnaturally’. However, it is also why their communities were in some ways sanctuaries, particularly for women trapped in unhappy circumstances or failed marriages.

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The fifth article of Season 001 - The Shakers is out!

The article explores the factors that created tensions between Shakers and their neighbours and how these were addressed over time.

Read “Together but Apart” now on mirror:

https://t.co/4NtKZKhVui

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Read more: https://t.co/4NtKZKhVui

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As pacifists, Shakers used nonviolent means to secure sovereignty. However, this was only possible because they operated within a nation that was willing to defend its federation with arms; their agency was rooted in the institutions born out of the American Revolution.

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The fifth article of Season 001 - The Shakers is out!

The article explores the factors that created tensions between Shakers and their neighbours and how these were addressed over time.

Read “Together but Apart” now on mirror:

https://t.co/4NtKZKhVui

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Check out a catalog of the Shakers' Inventions in"Debt freedom: Founding and Revenue Model of the Shakers"
https://t.co/28SHSE8tl5

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Check out a catalog of the Shakers' Inventions in"Debt freedom: Founding and Revenue Model of the Shakers"
https://t.co/28SHSE8tl5

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The Central Ministry developed production standards that all families that engaged in a certain product line ought to follow. The Ministry would send product samples to the families across the network so that they could align themselves to one another.

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The Shaker model is not unlike a web3 network project: a protocolized system that can punish or reward behavior by nodes according to a certain value system, offering value to nodes that voluntarily display good behavior.

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Read more about the Shakers and their funding model here: https://t.co/28SHSE8tl5

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In an age characterized by excess, it is no wonder that there is revived interest in the Shakers. They embodied a set of values that allowed them to live a good life without luxury, and put the surplus of their industriousness at the service of larger edifying projects.