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Parmartha posted an update 11 years, 8 months ago
I always feel a sense of paradox about the facts (from a neutral source as detailed below.) Somehow the denouement of the Ranch and these ”achievements” still seem a mystery to me.
Anyone going a help me?
In an article in The New Yorker, journalist Frances Fitzgerald detailed some of the accomplishments the commune had managed by 1983: cleared and planted 3,000 acres of land, built a 350-million-gallon reservoir and 14 irrigation systems, created a truck farm that provided 90% of the vegetables needed to feed that Ranch, a poultry and dairy farm to provide milk and eggs, a 10 megawatt power substation, an 85-bus public transportation system, an urban-use sewer system, a state-of-the-art telephone and computer communications center and 250,000 sq. feet of residential space.
and mussolinin drained the pontine marshes,made the trains run on time.
hitler built the autobahns and solved unemployment
saddam hussein had the best education record esp for women in mid east..
”the other side of the coin also has an other side”
—–japanese proverb
Thanks Frank and Arpana. The paradox about the efficiencies of dictators is certainly a good reminder Frank and fits the Rajneeshpuram experience.