Claeys < br> Three distinctions

  1. static v dynamic
  2. ascetic v abundant
  3. egalitarian v hierarchical

Add to this fictional/model/aphoristic utopias designed to illustrate a principle or teach a moral but which are not expected to ever exist, from actual real world utopias which are meant to happen. Map Vs territory.

Past utopias that have receded into myth. The garden of eden, the golden age of Greece, Rome, Carthage, Kronos — utopian societies that we have lost and need somehow to find a way back to ... before the library at Alexandria burned, when America was previously great...

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