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b_b  ·  4068 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mind-blowing literature?

On a side note, I often wonder how "Utopia" came to represent a nice place where everyone is happy and things work perfectly. In More's Utopia, Utopia is an island where slavery is a key aspect of life and private ownership of any kind is outlawed, a place where State is everything and person is nothing. If anything Utopia should signify what we call a dystopia, and dystopia should not exist. And I'm not picking on you, just throwing it out there, because its something we hear so much in pop culture.