Utopia

We need to learn

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We need to learn to listen to what the people need and want and not try to impose on them a whole schema that they may not. This is historically difficult stuff: how do we balance the project of raising consciousness, advancing a vision of utopia, with the real and honest engagement in real-world experiments? … Read more

In the century that

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In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of God, everyone suddenly turned into a saviour who wanted either to annihilate the obsolete world order or to establish a utopia. Naturally, there were writers among those who went mad. The fact that … Read more

Robert Nozick [a Havard

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Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book Anarchy, State and Utopia] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know what someone has done, and it doesn’t involve hurting them or doing anything to them beyond that. It’s just delivering the message that their crime has been noted not just by its victims, … Read more

The suburbs have always

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The suburbs have always been like an American version of utopia and a reflection of their hopes and fears. Erika’s version of American suburban utopia – which I am renaming the outer ring – is a diverse place, with affordable housing, the possibility for people to have small businesses, which is more realistic in the … Read more

Technical Utopias-flying, for example-have

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Technical Utopias-flying, for example-have been achieved by the new science of nature.The human utopia…a united new humankind living in solidarity and peace, free from economic determination and from war and class struggle-can be achieved, provided we spend the same energy, intelligence, and enthusiasm on the realization of the human Utopia as we have spent on … Read more

The word utopia has

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The word utopia has two meanings. It means both good place and nowhere. That’s the way it should be. The happiest places, I think, are the ones that reside just this side of paradise. The perfect person would be insufferable to live with; likewise, we wouldn’t want to live in the perfect place, either. A … Read more

To be ruthless requires

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To be ruthless requires belief that our life on earth is but a brief prelude to an afterlife, or a temporary sacrifice before some utopia can be instituted. Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. Eric Hoffer

We are not asked

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We are not asked to subscribe to any utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner. We are asked to be patient with necessarily slow and groping advance on the road forward, and to be ready for each step ahead as it become practicable. We are asked to equip ourselves with … Read more