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The rampant mental illness in the USA really does make this a negative feedback loop. I'd say a quarter of the roommates I've had over the years had some serious mental issues. I've had a knife pulled on me, a friend of mine was murdered by his roommate.
After you have a few bad experiences like that the goal becomes to get a small family together and isolate as soon as possible. Any commune here is basically assumed to be a religious cult because nothing else makes sense.
I have thought of getting some people together to do a Juche style commune where we just go hard on self reliance and try to be entirely left alone, but idk how I'd ever find the people or money to make it happen. Would be cool af tho. Just do like transitionary phases where you slowly become more and more self reliant until basically the only thing you'd need money for is property taxes, and random luxury items. It wouldn't be Juche exactly, but inspired by it for sure.