James Harrigan - What’s Wrong With Utopias?
The Curious Task
00:00
The Origins of Ugly Thought
Eugenics appears and played as Republic to. 25, 100 years ago in an attempt to figure out what justices ended up there. Of course, when they ended up there, that was Plato telling you, you don't want this society. For Keynes, it's a feature, not a bug. And he's falling into the Malthusian trap in his analysis. He's really making the case that in a world of limited resources, we really have to be able to do that. That's the genesis of utopian thought.
Transcript
Play full episode
