The left likes pain free utopias (why should anyone suffer?). The right likes painful ones (how else can you learn?). A middle way would be nice.
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What Kind Of Utopia Do You Want?
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The left likes pain free utopias (why should anyone suffer?). The right likes painful ones (how else can you learn?). A middle way would be nice.
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3 responses to “What Kind Of Utopia Do You Want?”
One where I can actually own property instead of lease it from the tax authorities.
Of course, Utopia literally means “nowhere.”
Samuel Butler was a bit more obvious and named his Utopia “Erewhon” (Geddit, huh? Huh?)
My guess is that the original proponents of these fantasies knew they were unattainable and were giving a wink to their readers through the names. Sadly, those following are not in the joke.
Skubinna,
while the ou-topia (not place) is part of the etymolgy I am confident Moore also coined the name from eu-topia (good place). It makes a nice linguistic play on words that it would have been obvious to Moore.