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Sat Jun 6, 2015, 10:31 PM

Jun 2015

Interesting: I was re-reading Erich Fromm on Aristotle; he said that Aristotle believed that at around population 5,000, a community became too large for individuals to meet their human potential. Certainly, that is about the size where a segment of the population becomes detached from nature.

I've never been comfortable living in a hamlet, much less a village. Forget towns or cities. One of the things I love about where I live is that it is rural.

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