James Harrigan - What’s Wrong With Utopias?
The Curious Task
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Dystopian Thinking
"I actually do want other people thinking of dystopia, right? Because then it brings in the train of thought," he says. "But on the other hand, some of the utopian thinkers seem to use dystopia as a scare tactic." 'If you want that Marxian revolution, look at what you're going to have to do to get it,' CNN's John Sutter asks. "'Let's kill all these people that we think are somehow not quite as good as the rest of us' Is that what anybody wants?' I mean, how many people have optimists killed?'"
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