Word: utopians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current goal is ten seconds to get a dial tone or an operator, and four to 24 hours to send a repairman to the house. One measure of how far the telephone system has fallen is that what seemed natural only a few years ago appears positively Utopian today...
ATHIRD contributor raises some nasty Freudian questions about radical youth. Erik Erikson postulates that youth is a kind of "psychological moratorium," during which young people are entitled to experiment with styles of behavior, and utopian models of human society, without being held accountable. Youth experiments with the Marxist model, putting itself in the role of the proletariat, or with the Gandhian model, putting itself in the role of the non-violent, oppressed colonial, and thus becomes part of the "revolt of the dependent." Youth in development is dependent upon society, as are colonials and the proletariat, and to be dependent...
...because its distrust of politicians is exceeded only by its contempt for them. False, because a tory businessman is as unnatural as a liberal Dalai Lama. You often hear that silly remark that the least government is the best government-silly because, like the concept of anarchy, it is Utopian. It will come true in heaven, in which time and place it will be equally true that the best business is no business...
...introduced by Edward M. Teller] made it a much more straightforward thing. I at least had hoped that the President and Secretary Acheson might have used the threat of developing an atomic bomb to force weapons control negotiations with the Russians, but looking back, that may have been a utopian point of view...
Perfect Day's main appeal, however, is not to sci-fi addicts but to collectors of Utopian minutiae. In Uni-land, for instance, men have no beards. Women have no breasts, but whether for sheer efficiency or simple streamlining one never knows. Everybody dies at exactly age 62. Sex begins at 14 and can be had with anyone one likes, but on Saturday night only. So much for tub night...