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  1. Apr 2020
  2. Feb 2020
    1. The word “utopia” means “nowhere”

      "We will remind ourselves and each other what is at stake. We will remember that the only thing we need to know about utopia is that nobody actually lives there." Reminds me of that quote

    2. Thomas More’s Utopia, a book that will be 500 years old next year, is astonishingly radical stuff. Not many lord chancellors of England have denounced private property, advocated a form of communism and described the current social order as a “conspiracy of the rich”.

      A man far ahead of his time

    1. In many cases, there exists no empirical evidence to back up the validity of this approach, yet it's universally accepted as the way things ought to be.

      This system has no reason it should be in place, and it seems to be failing.