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Did you by any chance read Aldous Huxley's "The Island"? The moral is that a utopia where tolerance for plurality is permitted is ideologically incapable of def

• m-i-l 3y ago
  > "The moral is that a utopia where tolerance for plurality is permitted is ideologically incapable of defending itself from external threats." See also the Paradox of tolerance[0]: "Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
• pstuart 3y ago
  Perhaps I was too young and naive at the time, but I took "The Island" to be an instruction manual on how to do it right (except for the ending, of course). Here and now, boys!
• nonameiguess 3y ago
  It works reasonably well at the level of the entire planet. Every conceivable lifestyle is acceptable somewhere, and nobody has yet managed to conquer all nations to undo that. Where that doesn't help in practice is relocation is often difficult logistically and emotionally, communities exert a grip on people forcing them to stay, some countries forcibly won't let you leave, and, as far as I know, no country lets you freely enter and stay.