Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
When we cast our vote, we do so not just for ourselves, but for the group we want to belong to.
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
Apparently, in modern capitalism we finance the things we find genuinely fulfilling with… bullshit.
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
once there’s enough food on the table, a roof that doesn’t leak, and clean running water to drink, economic growth is no longer a guarantor of welfare.
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
I do mean horizons in the plural; conflicting utopias are the lifeblood of democracy, after all.
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
The welfare state, which should foster people’s sense of security and pride, has degenerated into a system of suspicion and shame. It is a grotesque pact between right and left. “The political right is afraid people will stop working,” laments Professor Forget in Canada, “and the left doesn’t trust them to make their own choices.”
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
Governing by numbers is the last resort of a country that no longer knows what it wants, a country with no vision of utopia.
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
the real crisis is that we can’t come up with anything better.
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
Visao extremamente limitada
All we care about is “resolving problems,” as though politics could be outsourced to management consultants.
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I’ll never reach it. So what’s the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking. Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015)