Announcing “Utopia Is Creepy”

“It was a scene out of an Ambien nightmare: A jackal with the face of Mark Zuckerberg stood over a freshly killed zebra, gnawing at the animal’s innards. But I was not asleep. The vision arrived midday, triggered by the Facebook founder’s announcement — this was in the spring of 2011 — that ‘the only meat I’m eating is from animals I’ve killed myself.’ Zuckerberg had begun his new ‘personal challenge,’ he told Fortune magazine, by boiling a lobster alive. Then he dispatched a chicken. Contin...