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The moral flaw with persistent fantasies of creating perfect communities

The moral flaw with persistent fantasies of creating perfect communities I was surprised by the furor that erupted recently when plans to build a from-scratch dream city branded "California Forever" were revealed. Exposed by a reporter from the New York Times , a group calling itself Flannery Associates had surreptitiously bought, over several years, more than 54,000 acres of farmland in mostly rural Solano County, situated in California's inland Central Valley, about 70 miles from San Francisco. The reporter had been tipped off by rising suspicions: Locals were disturbed by the tide of unexpl

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