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INTERVIEWER: At Dunster House last month, you mentioned that you were were going to Utopia in a short while...
...think Chairman Mao has come closer to a utopia than any Western nation...
...more and more thoughtful people are objecting to the triumphal last act, the closer it seems to be. The reason for this lack of excitement at the by-now ritually invoked vision of material Utopia is that it has been held out too often. Today, at least in wintry moments of perception, it comes on as overblown and unconvincing as a TV commercial...
...more demonstrative flag wavers, but also in unexpected ways among dissenters and antiEstablishmentarians. Even if the disaffected young bitterly criticize American institutions and values, they reflect the traditional patriotic view of the moral and providential nature of the American destiny. The insistence that one's country should be Utopia is a patriotism of sorts-perhaps, in the long run, the best kind, for it may ensure that the present discontent will ultimately draw Americans together in seeking the Utopia they want...
...Before," he says, referring to the days of Batista, "people like me had no chance. We were discriminated against either because we were black or because we were poor. Now we are judged on merit alone." Not enough Cubans share his enthusiasm, however, to usher in Castro's Utopia any time soon. How else can a social order be explained in which fully 2,400,000 of Cuba's 8,000,000 people belong to Comites para la defensa de la revolución, charged mainly with watching their neighbors...