Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where traditional values connect to the future. He hopes to get to a place beyond poverty and violence and moral decay by leaving behind the welfare state and the deadening, blockheaded bureaucratic mind of Washington: a renewed civilization, says Newt--Norman Rockwell in the 21st century, a wholesome Utopia. Newt's destination has the refulgence of a never-never land--that is, an ideal. But in America, ideals have always been a necessary and efficient form of national energy. Which came first--Newt's vision of the future? Or his fierce personal ambition? Which one drives the other? The nearest...
...siege would end. It is difficult to see how any communication at all could take place in Ben-Shachar's regime, as someone somewhere might take some element of some speech as a reason to engage in some act of violence. If this is Ben-Shachar's utopia, it is utterly terrifying...
Walt Disney himself had the original idea for a Disneyfied utopia, built under a giant dome, where residents would be whooshed from skyscraper to skyscraper on a high-speed monorail. As Walt envisioned it, no retirees would be allowed to live in his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, and nobody could own property. It was to be a paradise of young renters, a notion that surely would have been vigorously opposed by the senior-citizen lobby. But Disney died in 1966, before the plans were drawn...
Somewhere along the line, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow got turned into the epcot theme park, where people could visit the future, but only from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Walt's idea of a utopia with residents was put on hold for a quarter of a century. Only then did the Disney Co., realizing it had more acres than it would ever need for theme parks, put the dream town back on the drawing board...
Jorie Graham read "Guardian Angel of the Little Utopia" and "Guardian Angel of Self Knowledge," both of which concerned "frustrated painters [who were] only given human beings to create with...