Hello there,
I was knocking about in my brain what a hypothetical future neo paleolithic
community might be like.
First there would have to be a vision, a dream, and the right amount of
adventurous insanity to try it. Actually all new and innovative things seem to
begin this way. Why insane? Because it would have to begin at some point, and
there would of course be the vehement opposition of the status quo. There
would be however, method to the madness. It would entail a great deal of
careful planning, a very visible lack of politics and competition, and EGO,
and the dedicated people committed enough to carry it off.
It might look like this: =

1. Enough acrage in a mild climate for a self sustaining community of about
5,000 people, split up into 5 villages. This might seem like a lot of people
but it isn't. This acrage would include land for herds, land for gardens and
textile/paper fiber production such as hemp, the kind you wear, not the kind
you smoke. If housing was excavated underground like the opal miners do in
Coober Peady (pardon my possible misspelling), the gardens/small animal pens
and such could be above the housing.
2. What would the people be like? Well, hybridism may have degenerated our
vegetal foodstuffs, but healthy hybridism is good for the human gene pool=2E The
HG's knew instinctively to get their mates from other tribes and not from
their own close relatives. Novelty such as physical characteristics differing
from their own were highly prized. Some of the most beautiful and vigorous
people in the world even today are those of mixed lineages. So, the people
would come from many different races to build up the gene pool of successive
generations. Also since this community would have to be self sustaining and
ecologically sound, there would be a limit, by consensus, to the human/animal
reproduction that was allowed. There would be certain percentages of single
people, married or "mated" people, children, Elders. This would have to be
carefully calculated to ensure the most successful outcome. The elected
"elders" or founders of the community would really be elders, appreciated for
their wisdom, not their ego or politiking or their gender. Sexism as well as
classism or racism of course would be non-existent. Women could work the herds
right alongside the men and men could choose to be full time parents. Religion
would be as diverse as the people, but hopefully there would be more
tolerence. There would be no unemployment. Division of Labor would not be
along gender lines but in terms of skill. There might even be a regular
rotation and crosstraining of people for the sake of contingency. The produce
of their efforts would be shared communally as each needed.
3. The produce would be: herds for meat, leather, soap, bone implements, dung
for fuel, and many other uses, small animals for wool not dairy, poultry, a
fish pond, Bees for pollination, wax, and a minimal amount of honey, organic
gardens abundant with heirloom low glycemic vegetables, berry bushes, fruit,
nut, and olive trees, herbs for medicine and food and the dyeing of textiles,
perhaps even a small renewable forest for wood /furniture production.

A community like this would be an eden of sorts. Think of people getting
together in the evening and exchanging thoughts, literature, art, and music
instead of television. No cellophane wrappers or junk food, low or no crime,
minimal disease, consensus instead of competition. Still a lot more work
involved than ancient HG's, but then a community like this is a step in the
right direction. Imagine.