Utopia

Utopia is an ideal community or society possessing a perfect socio-politico-legal system. The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempt to create an ideal society, and fictional societies portrayed in literature. It has spawned other concepts, most prominently dystopia. Many books that deal with "utopia" are actually putting out a plot or message of a "false utopia".

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The Book of All Loves
Perhaps the Stars (Terra Ignota, #4)
The Town with No Mirrors
The Men
Pantopia
The New Naturals
Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
Aarteidesi aikakirjat
Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
Maya of the In-between (Maya Rising, #1)
Huomistarhuri
Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures
Cwen
Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
Maailmantyttäret
Brave New World
The Giver (Giver, #1)
Utopia
The Dispossessed
1984
Island
Looking Backward: 2000-1887
Herland (The Herland Trilogy, #2)
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
Fahrenheit 451
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)

G.K. Chesterton
A permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any accidents of education or ill-treatment. And the weakness of all Utopias is this, that they take the greatest difficulty of man and assume it to be overcome, and then give an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller ones. They first assume that no man will want more than his share, and then are very ingenious in explaining whether his share will be delivered by motor-car or balloon.
G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

Joris-Karl Huysmans
I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature is born selfish, abusive, vile. Just look around you and see. Society cynical and ferocious, the humble heckled and pillaged by the rich traffickers in necessities. Everywhere the triumph of the mediocre and unscrupulous, everywhere the apotheosis of crooked politics and finance. And you think you can make any progress against a stream like that? No, man has never changed. H ...more
Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas

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