Congratulations on entering MoPeSo, the society of the future! We know you'll have a lot of questions, and this note should help answer them.
Q: What's up with MoPeSo?
MoPeSo is the fun name we've selected for our commune, as an abbreviation of "More Perfect Society." No one's really happy with it, but after seven intense collaborative group meetings, we couldn't come up with anything else. We essentially picked MoPeSo because it was the one option no one liked.
Q: Where do I sleep?
Wherever you want! That's one of the foundational principles of the MoPeSo. We're tired of all the rules about where we can and can't sleep that the real world has for us, so we don't want to tie anyone down. Just try not to sleep on top of someone else.
Also, you have to poop in the toilet. That's one of the good rules the real world has that we're taking with us.
Q: So I can just stay here? No trouble?
This is more of a commune than a squat, so there are chores that need to be done. Your chores will be assigned to you in the next day or so by an Assigned Chore Assigner. Again, not a great title. We're working on it.
Q: What's that smell?
As the MoPeSo has been established in an abandoned Denny's, certain odors are just going to be a part of communal living. When the founding fathers and mothers and non-biological parental units established this squat, the smells bothered them as well. But the symbolic beauty of establishing a MoPeSo in the husk of a failed capitalist enterprise was too rich to ignore.
Also, you stop noticing them after a time.
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That greasy feeling is pretty much omnipresent, though.
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