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...indeed, antiutopian-texts of the time have been Yevgeny Zamyatin's We and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. They stand in stark contrast to the visions of past ages: Plato's Republic, Augustine's City of God, Dante's Paradise, More's Utopia, Rousseau, Kant, Marx and the American Dream, which saw the millennium in everything new. No longer. Our antiutopian visions do not presume new discoveries so much as the perversion of things already known, the bleakness of these images due less to a mistrust of science than of basic human nature...
...have grown from the awareness that a Utopia can no longer be isolated, as it was with Plato and More, and that any future view must by necessity account for a universe of differences on an interconnected planet. Or perhaps we have come to dissociate knowledge from progress-a faith in progress being essential to Utopian thought-seeing instead every recent advance of the mind as merely one step, neither forward nor backward, along a huge, pitiless circle...
...laws, rhythms and mysteries of nature and happiest if they live in harmony with it, and their dwellings should reflect this unity inside and out. Wright's canon of organic design (which, being a loquacious and somewhat argumentative man, he often confused and even contradicted) is no Thoreauvian Utopia. He shared the American faith of his time in the blessings of technology. "This thing we call the Machine," he said in 1901, "is no more or less than the principle of organic growth working irresistibly the Will of Life through the medium of Man." But machine products, he believed...
PATIENCE is one of Gilbert and Sullivan's humbler operettas. It falls somewhere between the brilliant hilarity of HMS pinafore and the insipid mundaneness of the dusty Utopia Limited; it isn't set in Japan or in a mystical land. Patience unfolds somewhere in England in a town besieged by the pretentious aesthetic movement which transforms love into a selfish expression. Although Patiences plot does not mesmerize us with Gilberth and Sullivan's usual riveting complexity neither does it let us down. Cleverly worded lyrics complement attractive melodies pleasantly echoing grander numbers in other grander shows...
After leaving their homes, the Morses and thousands of Kachin refugees created yet another Christian Utopia in an uninhabited valley near Burma's border with India. In 1972, the missionaries were ordered out of Burma for good. They settled in the city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand for the eighth phase of the family's career. Robert, 59, is a teacher and linguist, and Eugene, 61, organizes evangelists to reach the 13,000 of the brightly costumed Lisu people within Thailand. Eight of the brothers' twelve children are missionaries in Thailand; the other four are studying...