That blog is probably as far away from positive experiences as one can be! Just wasted 10 minutes reading about the impending collapse of US...

I'm pretty sure the original comment was meant to gather experiences of positive self-organization results and not doom'n'gloom rhetoric.

Yes. One does not have to venture far to find a 'we're all ruined' article. I was more interested in finding small scale examples of how communities react when a central government essentially ceases to function. Not a preppers screed (i haven't looked at the link)

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/04/communities-that-abide... is a positive post (as is its prequel presumably)

Looks interesting. Thanks for sharing.