A quote from A Paradise Built in Hell
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A quote from A Paradise Built in Hell
We can imagine almost anything, but only a tiny fraction of what we imagine can become real. There is no easy way to verify how much change is possible. Hard-nosed realists may be right much of the time, but then, periodically, they become dramatically wrong. Wild-eyed visionaries may be wrong much of the time, but occasionally they become dramatic
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Rebecca Solnit explores the connection in “A Paradise Built in Hell,” articulating how amidst the destruction that disasters enact, more considerate and caring communities often arise. It’s a dynamic that can spark deep joy for those who experience it, Solnit writes — a joy that “reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness an... See more
Joanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
Historically, moments of political uncertainty often give birth to utopian dreaming, which is one reason why it is enjoying such a renaissance today.
Kristen R. Ghodsee • Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
“Utopian” as I use it simply denotes thinkers and movements that attempted to rearrange the domestic sphere in ways significantly out of keeping with the prevailing traditions of their societies for the purpose of living together in greater harmony in pursuit of either secular or spiritual goals.
Kristen R. Ghodsee • Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
They have deployed what Vaclav Havel has called "the armory of holistic social engineering."' Utopian aspirations per se are not dangerous. As Oscar Wilde remarked, "A map of the world which does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing."° Where the u
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