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What do you think about utopia?
by xoptions 4y ago
What do you think about utopia?
- college_physics 4y agoAccording to search behavior at least, interest in utopias is growing steadily since the fifties. The fans of the "you never had it so good" theory must work a bit harder https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=utopia+etymology https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=uto... Interestingly, while from the beginning the word utopia was used to refer to a desirable (perfect) society, etymologically it simply means a place that does not exist. In contrast to dystopia, which is clearly a bad place.
- tremon 4y agoetymologically it simply means a place that does not exist This isn't true, I think? Assuming that it derives from the Greek τόπος (location), it literally means "good place" (εὖ-τόπος). The no-such-place translation in Greek would probably be ἄτοπος, but that's an existing word and uses one of the other meanings of τόπος (it means uncommon or absurd).