Word: utopianism
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...point, Health Net's Dr. Ho seemed to lose patience with the doctors' ambivalence. "Each of these issues--I just want to be clear about this. This is not a Utopian society that everybody can be everything to all people and paid for by somebody else. We have fiduciary responsibilities to our employers to the tune of about $1.5 billion worth of premiums paid to us every year to manage their health-care premium dollars responsibly . because in general, insurance and payers and physicians have been ineffective in holding that fiduciary responsibility...
That much modern psychopathology grows out of the dynamics of economic freedom suggests a dearth of miracle cures; Utopian alternatives to captialism have a history of not working out. Even the more modest reforms that are imaginable--reforms that somewhat blunt modernization's antisocial effects--will hardly be easy or cheap. Workplace-based day care costs money. Ample and inviting public parks cost money. And it costs money to create good public schools--which by diverting enrollment from private schools offer the large communal virtue of making a child's neighborhood peers and schoolyard friends one and the same. Yikes...
...half-century ago this year, the last world war ended with the surrender of the Axis powers. It left behind a European culture broken in half, a field of ashes, ruins and grave pits that mocked the crushed utopian fantasies of early modernism. How did the visual arts in Europe put themselves together from such destruction? What forms rose from this landscape-not only in painting and sculpture but also in photography, architecture and design-during the two decades of recovery after...
...humanity capable of such an undertaking?Is it not a hopelessly utopian idea? Haven't we solost control of our destiny that we are condemnedto gradual extinction in ever harsher high-techclashes between cultures, because of our fatalinability to to co-operate in the face ofimpending catastrophes, be they ecological, socialor demographic, or of dangers generated by thestate of our civilization as such...
Richard's best friend and worst enemy is the daft, cheerful Gwyn Barry, whose glib utopian novel, Amelior, has rocketed to the top of the bestseller list. Stupid, shallow and immensely popular, Gwyn resembles Tod Friendly, the ex-Nazi from Amis' last novel, Time's Arrow. Of course, the public laps up Amelior, as Richard (who, as a soon-to-be-ex-novelist, has plenty of time on his hands) begins to plot revenge...