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where a family’s or clan’s resilience and vision of what works is utterly incompatible with, yet almost wholly dependent upon, a city ruled by strangers. We see
remarkable variations on these issues at “the world’s largest spiritual utopia,”
Auroville, in Pondicherry, India, housing 2500 people, or at New Orodos in the
Gobi Desert, which has been described as “…a post-apocalyptic space station….”
26
Whether after hundreds of millennia humanity can change, under ecological
duress, or in the full freedom of its moral intellect and adaptability, remains a totally
unknown quantum for natural selection.
26 See “7 Utopian Design Experiments, from Le Corbusier’s Radiant City to a Ghost Town in
China,” by Demie Kim, Artsy, January 9, 2017, https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-7-utopian-design-experiments-le-corbusiers-radiant-city-ghost-town-china, Accessed April 18, 2020.
For a brief overview of Utopian socialism and its corresponding settlement patterns, including Karl
Marx and Friedrich Engels, Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, the Moravians and Shakers, Anabaptists
and German Pietists, see God’s Country: The New Zealand Factor, by M. C. Tobias and J. G.
Morrison, A Dancing Star Foundation Book, Zorba Press, Ithaca, New York, 2011, p. xxxvi.
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where a family’s or clan’s resilience and vision of what works is utterly incompatible with, yet almost wholly dependent upon, a city ruled by strangers. We see
remarkable variations on these issues at “the world’s largest spiritual utopia,”
Auroville, in Pondicherry, India, housing 2500 people, or at New Orodos in the
Gobi Desert, which has been described as “…a post-apocalyptic space station….”
26
Whether after hundreds of millennia humanity can change, under ecological
duress, or in the full freedom of its moral intellect and adaptability, remains a totally
unknown quantum for natural selection.
26 See “7 Utopian Design Experiments, from Le Corbusier’s Radiant City to a Ghost Town in
China,” by Demie Kim, Artsy, January 9, 2017, https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-7-utopian-design-experiments-le-corbusiers-radiant-city-ghost-town-china, Accessed April 18, 2020.
For a brief overview of Utopian socialism and its corresponding settlement patterns, including Karl
Marx and Friedrich Engels, Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, the Moravians and Shakers, Anabaptists
and German Pietists, see God’s Country: The New Zealand Factor, by M. C. Tobias and J. G.
Morrison, A Dancing Star Foundation Book, Zorba Press, Ithaca, New York, 2011, p. xxxvi.
42.4 Natural and Unnatural Occupancies