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...both Fascism and Communism in Europe and militarism in my own country. I had already spent some time as a youthful observer in Germany and the Soviet Union, where it seemed to me the myths of statism left no room for individual liberty, initiative or responsibility, and where Utopian visions of the future seemed contrived and grim...
...institution devoted not simply to confining but also to rehabilitating the offender. In the penitentiary-literally, a place where one repents-the native innocence of man could be restored by the proper combination of solitary reflection and spiritual guidance. The high hopes of the reformers proved, of course, impossibly Utopian-probably in theory, certainly in practice. As crime increased, the prisons were soon overcrowded, and thus neither solitude nor guidance was any longer possible. More important, the breakdown of familial and communal controls that had made prisons necessary in the first place ensured that the prisons could not be successful...
Genes limit the range of human behavior and thus the kinds of utopia possible for man, but that fact is hard to reconcile with a utopian political ideal, Davis said...
...BEEN a long time now since pleasant utopian vision were in literary fashion. In recent days, they have been replaced with bleak prophecies of emotional aridity and violence like those of Huxley and Burroughs. Martin Amis's new novel, Dead Babies, is in this new tradition...
...time, saw in the "ragazzi di vita," who have neither ideals nor morals, a mirror image of the capitalist bourgeois who wield power in Italy. But Pasolini proposed no alternative to the existing power structure. Though he professed commuunism, Pasolini was no Marxist or Maoist, but a utopian, a romantic. His vision of the future society was of a "natural" society, a return to some pastoral arcadia (such as the one his early poems describe, inspired by the gentle countryside near Friuli). Taking refuge in literature, Pasolini found only intellectual answers to the economic and political questions his social conscience...