I am not sure if this is something but lately I have been thinking about the small villages of the ancient times and how they encompassed small amounts of people and each had their own trade. I was thinking of the tiny village, before the overpopulation of today as well as the Wal-Mart giants generating waste beyond what we can handle, and thought about how they had people who each had a talent - maybe one was good at healing people and another good at healing animals, one baked very well and another was able to grow food for the village and animals, one was a good tanner and the other a blacksmith, etc. People would go to villages and trade wares and not use one iota of money. Just their valuable trade of what their personal gift was to the village. There may have been others that came in with the same gifts as some of these folks and maybe set up their own shop or worked together with the person who did the same thing as they did. This created maybe more leisure time for contemplating and thinking or time spent with family or whatever was needed for the spirit to evolve. You also could create more of what was needed if the small village grew. So how do you figure people worked out this kind of thing out and had it be a success? Where competition need not turn into a fight but how do you do that? People's agendas and stuff. I just wonder about how successful areas did this. How this can be applied to the future and how that is handled without a "king or queen" figure? Can that truly be? Can people work as a whole to settle differences and conflicts so that the town or village they live in does not become so complicated it just runs well even if a monkey wrench is thrown into it?

Maybe this isn't making any sense but I just really am wondering how you create places that have this kind of working together quality, each with their own talents, helping people through bad days and leaving money out of it. Maybe this is primitive but I feel like this simplification of life would be easier to do than what we tend to do now. It just keeps running through my head lately...the idea of places like this. People just living, doing their life work or the things they really enjoy and living in harmony with one another and the earth....has anyone else been seeing this deep inside lately?