Echoing a utopian meme is analogous to stamping an instance of an invention, not to inventing something anew. It is inventors of utopian dreams that I doubt to be more numerous than inventors of technology.
And let’s not forget how many millions of patents there are; I don’t think there are that many millions of utopias, even if we let them differ as little as patents can differ.
You may be right here. Utopias are usually also quite uninnovative. “All people will be brothers and sisters with enough to eat and Bible (or something else stupid) reading in a community house every night”.
Can you invent a utopia? A utopia is an incoherent concept about a society that contains too many internal contradictions or impracticalities to ever exist. Thus, it cannot be invented any more than a perpetual motion machine can be.
If you do consider utopias inventable, what’s the difference between “inventing a new utopia” and “having a new preference”? You want X; you dream of a world where you get X, inventing Utopia X.
Echoing a utopian meme is analogous to stamping an instance of an invention, not to inventing something anew. It is inventors of utopian dreams that I doubt to be more numerous than inventors of technology.
And let’s not forget how many millions of patents there are; I don’t think there are that many millions of utopias, even if we let them differ as little as patents can differ.
You may be right here. Utopias are usually also quite uninnovative. “All people will be brothers and sisters with enough to eat and Bible (or something else stupid) reading in a community house every night”.
Variations are not that great.
Can you invent a utopia? A utopia is an incoherent concept about a society that contains too many internal contradictions or impracticalities to ever exist. Thus, it cannot be invented any more than a perpetual motion machine can be.
If you do consider utopias inventable, what’s the difference between “inventing a new utopia” and “having a new preference”? You want X; you dream of a world where you get X, inventing Utopia X.