James Harrigan - What’s Wrong With Utopias?
The Curious Task
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The Future of Humanity
If you want utopia, take your hands off the wheel and let people live. If you stuck with that first city, wouldn't spontaneous order deliver you relishes over time? Wouldn't you start with farmers and shoemakers and end up with opera? End up with architecture? Right. And what's not wonderful? The republic that gets built at the table. The city and speech that they actually build. Nobody would want to live there. Why? Because it's oppressive. It's the height of oppressive. Everything about it is oppressive. Do you really want John Maynard Keynes telling you how to live? Really? I hope you're the right kind of person. Or anyone for
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