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Personally, I’m a cynic, and I think it sounds ghastly. I rather like the sound of the [[apocalypse]], on the other hand: the grim contemplation of what’s coming to me is swamped by the happy thoughts that so many other odious people are going to get what's coming to them. | Personally, I’m a cynic, and I think it sounds ghastly. I rather like the sound of the [[apocalypse]], on the other hand: the grim contemplation of what’s coming to me is swamped by the happy thoughts that so many other odious people are going to get what's coming to them. | ||
===Thomas More’s utopia=== | |||
Doesn’t actually sound like a lot of fun, though the communists might have liked it. | |||
*No private property and no locks on doors | |||
*Houses are rotated between citizens every ten years | |||
Everyone must work at one of the essential trades (weaving, carpentry, smithing and masonry), and is sent out to farm for two years at a time, but the (mandatory) working day is six hours long (but feel free to work for longer). | |||
*Educated people get to be ruling officials and priests and they get the best food. | |||
*Every house has two slaves (captured from other countries or domestic criminals) | |||
*Hospitals are free, euthanasia is allowed, pre-marital sex is not allowed, and the punishment for adultery is enslavement. | |||
*Everyone must carry an internal id card at all times, on pain of enslavement. | |||
*There are no lawyers! Law is simple and everyone is expected to be in no doubt as to right and wrong. | |||
*Privacy is discouraged, seeing as if you can see everyone, they are obliged to behave well. | |||
===Working definition=== | ===Working definition=== | ||