Sublime

In that plastic moment of rapid social change, where all the old rules seemed negotiable,

think our way into a different future.

resistance to new ways of thinking may be most extreme when it concerns how we structure our private lives.

If there were entirely unexplored continents to the west, perhaps there were also newer and better ways to organize society to maximize human flourishing.

learning about other political and economic systems opened my mind to the possibility that the reality in which I lived was not the only one available.

changes in our intimate worlds would help us forge stronger and more harmonious societies.

Since political and economic systems accrue and distribute power and wealth among people, those people are essential inputs to those systems.

skeptics and haters have always scoffed at visions of a better world,

For millennia, new ways of organizing social relations have emerged when philosophers, theologians, reformers, writers, and other visionaries imagine them elsewhere, in some idealized world that serves as a mirror to reflect the deficiencies of the accepted state of things.