The document discusses how modern living has become fragmented and isolating, with people living in separate "cans" for different aspects of life like work, home, and transportation. It notes statistics showing declines in traditional families and increases in single-parent households, unemployment, debt, and depression. It argues that the advice of local governments assumes people have extra money and time, which many struggling people do not. However, it proposes that people could build a more sustainable community centered around shared living spaces, skills, and resources.

1. the canned human thoughts on living differently

2. we live in cans

3. we sleep in cans

4. we send children to cans

5. we work in cans

6. to get from can to can, we drive

7. in cans

8. we connect the cans with money

9. and that is often our sole connection with each other

10. canned humanity leads to a fragmented life

13. reality looks like this

21. being canned is not working

23. they are speaking to people who don’t exist

24. How can any of us live an efficient, healthy, fulfilling life when our resources are constantly being drained from us?

25. we could uncan ourselves

26. inter-relate and concentrate

27. build studio apartments around a commons

29. we could share skills

30. time and resources

31. school each other

32. and promote craftsmanship

33. we are isolated among many

34. we live, sleep, raise our children, work, and drive in cans

35. we know how to build community

36. now let’s bring it home