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Utopian ideologies are psychopathic and arise from an inability to inhabit reality (at least without treatment).
Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism
James Lindsay
There is an old Greek proverb that reads, “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
Planting Trees in Shade We’ll Never Know
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So you can’t have Utopia without “the deject”. The stuff you’re getting rid of. The stuff you’re “throwing away” (that’s what the word “deject” implies). The more light, clear, and fever-pitched the Utopian dream, the darker and more abominable the deject seems to the Utopian mind — and the more murderous an undercurrent comes with it.
What’s the Difference Between Utopia, Eutopia, and Protopia?
Hanzi Freinacht
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