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his personal epiphanies of his six years the most wonderfully useless table I’ve
living in community. I’m afraid that the ever seen, pick up your copy of
less said about this the better. eurotopia and hastily turn to pages 44
and 45. The table purports to show how
What follows are more pages written by many communities should exist in any
the editor, starting with a much more given country. It takes the number of
interesting piece by him, recalling the communities listed in the directory by
various editorial dilemmas he faced in country, and compares it to the total
terms of who to include and who not to population of that country. An overall
include in the directory. He recalls an average is calculated (0.4 communities
amusing request from an equestrian per 1 million Europeans) and then this
centre with just one permanent human number is used to determine how many
resident, which described itself as a communities should exist in each
multi-species community! This article country based on this average and the
includes a rather serious passage, total population of that country. The
describing the choice not to publish the stunning conclusion is that all but 8
communities of the Twelve Tribes, due European countries should have less
to the practice of violence within their than 10 communities. Priceless!
communities.
As for the directory itself, contact
Before we get to the listings itself, we details, a description, date of
are presented with definitions of establishment, demography and more,
community and some stats. There are a are provided for each community,
total of 429 communities published, including some pretty funky symbols
with a massive 160 of them in Germany used for the key. To be fair, if you are
alone. The fact that the book is first looking to discover and visit intentional
and foremost a German-language communities in Europe, this is as good as
publication (with intermittent versions exists, anywhere.
in English), and is put together in
Germany by (mostly) Germans, it is Having said that, my major
somewhat inevitable that its network of disappointment is that only two Israeli
contacts, and subsequently the finished communities feature in the directory
product, reflects this bias. (and Israel doesn’t appear at all in the
aforementioned table). I know that the
Further number crunching shows that directory depends on communities
330 communities contain at least seven actually sending information to the
people. Taking away the two biggest directory, but when I can literally name
communities (one in Russia and one in twice as many Israeli intentional
the Netherlands that can boast 7,400 communities than even the number of
people between them), the average German entries, the research has fallen
number of people per community is only short somewhat.
38. In addition, more than 60% of Anton Marks
community residents work on-site.
If you’re looking for a book featuring
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