Yeah, because Utopias are for the unimaginative.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité by the People, of the People, for the People, from each according to ability, to each according to need is a mission statement that doesn’t require any thinking about, does it?
You don’t need to stop and think about human psychology, genetics, biology, ecology or any of that messy stuff that the ungrateful hordes you are fetishising engage in IRL.
It’s a bit like Brexit … sunlit uplands and unicorns for all.
And, as long as it’s like some yet … maybe never … to be invented future technology that will magically dispense with the need for the Irish ‘backstop’ (so, you don’t need one now) … you can paint the Future as brightly as you like.
Even CP was utopian — as I said, as soon as I read it I thought … “that’s ridiculously optimistic.”
Anyone who stops to think about the needs and behaviours of real people in the real world can’t help but pen dystopias — those who envisage utiopias are caught up in themselves and their beatific vision … the one’s who actually care about others worry about that stuff and its wider impact.
As Pratchett said …
“People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.”
And, as I said …
