Brother Clark OR The Geek Monastery

Clark came up with an interesting idea today: The geek monastery. It's kind of the ultimate extension of the geekhouse concept. In this grand vision a number of academically minded individuals would live together in an environment that fosters thinking. There would be a routine: rise early and have a light breakfast, toil in the fields (how do you feed a monastery), have a large lunch followed by a nap and then be free (perhaps even required) to pursue whatever geeky topic suits you. As he so succinctly put it it would address many of the problems that seem to plague modern society: lack of community, lack of good food, lack of good environment, and lack of exercise (I'm certain I've missed some in this list. Perhaps he will set the record straight).

I have to say, I find this idea oddly appealing. I will admit that it's kind of odd but it fits somehow. It seems fitting that the geeks of the world should be the modern monastic order. Imagine the sort of ideas that could emerge from such a place. If nothing else it makes interesting food for thought.

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I guess it's somethin to do with luck, but I waited my whole life for just one... day, after day..
everstar
The monastery
I like this idea, because, as a chick, I'd have the entire female wing mostly to myself. :D
m4dd4wg
Universites
That's pretty much how universities got started - they were monasteries with a focus on sundry academic disciplines. During the late middles ages some areas like Heidelburg, Cambridge, the left bank of Paris, etc. became centers of learning with clusters of monasteries and their associated "colleges" offering a smorgaborg of book learnin'. Later, the colleges developed a central organization, creating a big tent for all of the schools, forming a "university."

Although TU today hardly reflects the model you describe, I imaging that Kendall College back in 1894, lookt a whole helluva lot like an academic monastery.

Artist Colonies and Co-op seem to preserve that tradition, whether its a rural commune in upstate New York or New Mexico or an urban live/work space as in San Fran or this one in Philly, they offer a shared living environment for people interested in exploring similar ideas.