Word: utopianism
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...thundering collision of different worlds”—are bathed in the white, diaphanous light of a total spiritual order. The apparent chaos of disassociated lines, cacophanous colors, and uprooted forms are, in a similar way, organized into a careful design— a utopian map of what Kandinsky named the “new world called the work.” One is reminded here of his 1922 series of engravings, “Small Worlds,” an edition of which is available for viewing in the Busch-Reisinger Study Room...
What on earth has happened to American conservatism? It used to be a reliably dour movement, a sober restraint upon the wishful thinking of mushy-minded liberals. But it has slipped, somehow, from realism to utopian fantasy. On the domestic side, there is the sugarplum delusion of endless tax cuts and untrammeled government spending. In foreign policy, there is a wildly idealistic pro-democracy jihad. (Iraq will be the first of many dominoes to fall, it is said...
...What on earth has happened to American conservatism? It used to be a reliably dour movement, a sober restraint upon the wishful thinking of mushy-minded liberals. But it has slipped, somehow, from realism to utopian fantasy. On the domestic side, there is the sugarplum delusion of endless tax cuts and untrammeled government spending. In foreign policy, there is a wildly idealistic pro-democracy jihad. (Iraq will be the first of many dominoes to fall, it is said...
...prohibits interest payments on loans, for example (see next article), which Hizb ut-Tahrir claims prevents exploitation, while the ban on free-flowing currency would protect countries like Indonesia from the destabilizing effects of globalization. "Shari'a presents a logical framework for sustainable development," says Assem. "It's not utopian like socialism, and it isn't all about exploitation and profit like capitalism. It's all-encompassing. The more you learn, the more sense it makes." In the social realm, Assem grants that Shari'a is more restrictive than Western norms and lifestyles. "Women are to be admired, not used...
...ruling left-leaning parties and European Union bureaucrats completely failed to acknowledge the public’s concern about immigration. They instead stuck to a utopian ideology of multiculturalism and closed their eyes to the contradictions spawned by their social choices. Fortunately, the center-right has co-opted the far-right’s immigration platform, and with it their popularity, while steering clear of extremism. Instead of blasting all European conservatives for imaginary fascist tendencies, liberals should thank them for saving Europe from the real thing...