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Everyday Utopia and Radical Imagination with Kristen Ghodsee

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The Importance of Dreaming

Karen Drexler: You talked at length about Kurt Vonnegut's book, Harrison Bergeron. It's one of the most taught pieces in American public schools as well as 1984 by George Orwell and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. And I would add to that just from my personal experience, Lord of the Flies. The key thing is that all of these books play on this terrible fear of us being unloved and alone.

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