I totally didn't know which way you were going with that at first... I was raised by hippies, not exactly in a commune but at least in the warm months in very "outside of society, back to the land" style living, grow your veggies, cook over a fire, swim naked in the lake, and I think of it as giving me a strong ability to think for myself. I had friends who lived that way year round, but we went back to the city for the school year once we were old enough. But some of those childhood friends now raise their kids on group-owned land in the same way. Why is that dangerous - not enough interaction with different types of people? You get that living in a liberal bubble too, really... I never met a Christian or a Republican in the city I lived in, either. It just seems like in the US there are so many places where you are segregated less from a diversity of skin color etc, but from a diversity of politics or viewpoints.