The Big Maybe

 

Some thoughts about the totalitopia I'm planning for our descendants (supposing we don't get to live forever whether in the meat package or in the cloud):

"Freedom is all about authority."  -- Rudy Giuliani

"Authority is all about freedom."  -- Me

W.H. Auden makes a beautiful distinction I have often drawn on between Eden and the New Jerusalem. The Utopian, Auden points out, looks always forward. His griefs are irritation and rage at incompletion. The dreamer of Eden looks backward to a world ...