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But that's my point, and to lay it all out more clearly — I just think writers are being incredibly lazy when it comes to thinking about utopias. The very conc
by davidivadavid 8y ago
But that's my point, and to lay it all out more clearly — I just think writers are being incredibly lazy when it comes to thinking about utopias.
The very concept of a utopia conveys the idea of a world, or a trajectory of constantly increasing excitement and betterment. The idea that a utopia would be boring because "everything is already as good as it can get" betrays a fundamental misunderstanding: if people born in a "utopia" consider it normal and boring, it's probably not a utopia.