Paul Millerd on Substack
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Paul Millerd on Substack
There's different versions, but all of them have the same belief in a rabid individualism.” The metaphysical ideas on which these books were based, Bowler explains, “formed some of the primary assumptions of what we call the American Dream.”
Phoebe Lovatt • Good Vibes Only™
utopias are initially attacked on three grounds: futility (it’s not possible), danger (the risks are too great), and perversity (it will degenerate into dystopia). But Hirschman also wrote that almost as soon as a utopia becomes a reality, it often comes to be seen as utterly commonplace.
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
Real dystopias are more like the old Soviet Union rather than Mad Max: They are stiflingly bureaucratic rather than lawless.