Word: utopias
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...fast becoming a part of the Harvard indoctrination. Before you know it these young "virgin people" are beginning to talk and act like all the Harvard classes before them. They're full of "piss 'n'vinegar." They want to change the world. They want to build and create a UTOPIA so the poor and the downtrodden will no longer suffer. What a joke! They come to Harvard with beautiful thoughts--and that is to help humanity--and they wind up sitting in a swivel chair in some big Corporation screwing the poor and the helpless...
...conflicts did not always exist for Rosa. Since childhood, she has routinely subordinated her life to what she calls the Future--the utopia of a South Africa without apartheid or capitalism. Her parents ask her for sacrifices as calmly as one would ask for directions. Rosa fakes a romance with a political prisoner to smuggle messages, hides excruciating cramps from her first period to bring her mother a quilt in prison, watches her parents and her brother die stoically...
...Wells. Stevenson listens skeptically as the inventor displays a time machine he's just built to carry him into the perfect world of the future, but when the police burst in, he steals the machine to escape. Convinced that he's "turned that bloody maniac loose on Utopia!," Wells follows the Ripper to 1979 San Francisco, the time machine having automatically returned to its owner...
...class for its materialism. The common people, he lamented, we're "disinclined to risk their relative prosperity for abstract and Utopian ideas." Revolution, he believed, lay with a special elite he described as a "democratic educational dictatorship of free men" in his influential essay, Repressive Tolerance. And the Utopia they would create? Marcuse was rather hazy except to suggest that somehow people could continue to enjoy all the good things of life without having to pay the price for them...
Though his Utopia was not achieved, Marcuse lived pleasantly enough. He spent the half decade of student upheaval lecturing genially to packed halls in the sunny tranquillity of the University of California at San Diego. Tanned, fit, cheerful students mixed musings on revolution with sunning, surfing, downing beers. "You cannot have fun with fascism," Marcuse recently complained. Yet he seemed to have fun. Just three years ago, he married his third wife Erica (by his first marriage he had a son Peter...