There is one other final and hard-to-face factor that leads to the eventual demise of my father’s utopia and that is the unintended consequences of the alternative parenting experiment.It is no coincidence that the average life of a utopian project is the time it takes to settle and begin to raise children.Children are the authoritative test of the theory that humans are … [Read more...] about False goals and impossible expectations
Defending utopia from outsiders, dissidents and saboteurs?
So: what will you do, I ask my father, if word gets around that you’re building your Utopia and others want to join? How he will stop Non-Utopians from coming to his island and spoiling it before they even start the experiment. Remember what happened to Haiti and Tahiti!My father agrees that it might be an idea to have walls. What about cannons I ask, and he says no, because … [Read more...] about Defending utopia from outsiders, dissidents and saboteurs?
Why we would be happier without Utopia
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias. Oscar Wilde Once, not so very long ago, there was a sad man who spent most of his days in an attic. The … [Read more...] about Why we would be happier without Utopia