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...This is not a clash of civilizations, not a clash of Islam against the West,” he said. “The true cause [of the Sept. 11 attacks] is a search for an Islamic utopia. It is only when we get in the way of the Muslim path to heaven—that is by supporting repressive rulers deemed to be religiously illegitimate—is it we become the enemy...
This depiction of the alphabet as cultural symbol is also evident in Thomas More’s Utopia, for which Peter Giles created a simple and rational alphabet befitting of More’s rational kingdom...
These confessions are just a few examples of the appalling charade that ensues when Harvard College asks its students to prove they have seven friends. It should be easy to identify friends we want to live with. But our utopia-seeking, social-climbing search for the perfect blocking group leads us to overlook friendship in favor of cultivating useful connections. Negotiating one’s way into blocking with the token first-year celebrities justifies any amount of back-stabbing and cheap flattery. After all, FM says that blocking is “a time of dastardly intrigue, two-faced...
...think we will also see more personalized medicine--knowing your own genome and being able to choose what part you want to look at and what part you don't. I can't imagine we will be in a complete Utopia. Utopia doesn't fit our personality...
...brief question and answer period, he doubted the farsightedness of the current American disarmament position. "To want effective inspection systems," Morgenthau said, "is to desire a utopia or not to want disarmament...