Word: utopia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Closer to Utopia...
...world is, that there is such a thing as injustice, and these qualities are offered up without any veiling or disguise,” he said. Kushner criticized the playwright Tom Stoppard for the implicit message of his popular play sequence, “The Coast of Utopia,” and his recent play “Rock ‘n’ Roll.” In Stoppard’s plays, he said, there is “a politics of anti-politics—a great rejection of the political and the possibility of transformation...
...Rather than offering a pessimistic view about Harvard, the point of this critique is to calibrate expectations in harmony with reality. More importantly, students should realize that they are the agents who produce their own perfection. No collection of bricks and bylaws will ever, on its own, constitute a utopia; to naively believe so is to walk into a trap. In place of willful ignorance, new students ought to stare head-on into the problems of the place, and, instead of finding them depressing, such confrontation should assert students’ right to orient themselves against problems in whatever fashion...
...spoke in similar terms, via webcam, to a crowd of several hundred in Saskatoon, Canada. Jensen claims to be able to forecast the imminent collapse of civilization as we know it; the only question, for him, is whether humans will survive it. In Jensen’s post-apocalyptic utopia, mankind will learn from the error of its ways and go back to nature, living alongside jumping salmon and friendly bears...
...some just want some layin’.” Therefore, it behooves me to instead confront the deeper issues that this video raises. The chorus—“We all want the same thing”—seems to posit an idyllic utopia populated by both strippers and ex-boyfriends that would bring a tear to V. I. Lenin’s eye. But if Ms. Tequila and her stripper friends all want the same thing, then why are they fighting with each other for the attention of all these sleazy Jack Nicholson look-alikes...