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Cultural and political movements that are based on narrow interests such as
art, poetry, singular social issues such as human or worker rights, ecology,
health and welfare, will not sustain themselves over the long term. Members of
the movement tend to wander off to their own pursuits, as progress is or is not made, and the energy dissipates away. Movements may create the apparatus for
a more sustainable existence. For instance, organizations usually religious, such as retreats and monasteries, cults and sometimes communes, will buy land in some remote place and create self-sustaining self-sufficient communities. In this way individuals are unified by every aspect of human living, in a regimen of
cultural, economic and political conformity. These organizations have historically remained small and seldom have had any far reaching influence independent of the auspices of larger organizations.
For a movement to have sustainability and far reaching influence, it must be
able to transcend political, cultural, religious, class, education, economic
boundaries and differences, and the hostilities of established interests of every kind. Thus the philosophical core would need to be based on commonality, as
the good of the whole, or greatest number and diversity of people, as opposed
to specific, narrow and of special interests, wherein the individual is to conform
to Authoritative Dictates, as superior, progressed, universal models of human behavior. A sustainable movement would ideally be based upon a core philosophy that is common to all people everywhere.
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