Somewhere in the line of history, civilization had made a wrong turn, a detour that had led into a cul-de-sac. The only way, they felt, was to drop out and go all the way back to the beginning, to the primal source of consciousness, the true basis of culture: the land.14
Im glad she's being critical (in a really smart way) of communes because this book would have been really hard to read if she wasnt. Anyway i feel like it's so interesting that every new generation fees like they've invented this feeling
