I know a place...

[mig]

I know a place which has the climate California boasts about,but hasn't got.Where there is no war,no politics,no religion.Where women are incredibly beautiful and willing.Where people do only what they want.Where no one hurts anyone else.Where there is no poverty or disease.Where is it? you say.I never can remember when I wake up.What is your dream?.........With apologies to whoever's ideas I've stolen.

 

[Docgtvt]

ahhh utopia, land of our dreams both sleep induced and daytime inspired. utopia, imaginary land of a thousand pleasantries and not a single negativity. utopia, where we wish to be.




"imagine there's no countries, its easy if you try. no ground below us, above us only sky! imagine all the people, living for the day!"
---------john lennon

 

[Ally C]

The word UTOPIA stands in common usage for the ultimate in human folly or human hope -- vain dreams of perfection in a Never-Never Land or rational efforts to remake man's environment and his institutions and even his own erring nature, so as to enrich the possibilities of the common life. Sir Thomas More, the coiner of this word, was aware of both implications. Lest anyone else should miss them, he elaborated his paradox in a quatrain which, unfortunately, has sometimes been omitted from English translations of his Utopia, the book that at last gave a name to a much earlier series of efforts to picture ideal commonwealths. More was a punster, in an age when the keenest minds delighted to play tricks with language, and when it was not always wise to speak too plainly. In his little verse he explained that utopia might refer either to the Greek 'eutopia', which means the good place, or to 'outopia', which means no place. -- Lewis Mumford (in 'The Story of Utopias', 1922)

Source: Henry W. Targowski, "Utopia," Glossary
http://www.euro.net/mark-space/issues/2000/01/001weinberg.htm

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