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The True End of Civil Government by John Locke (1690 CE) - #50
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From all his serious-looking portraits I never would have guessed his raw sense of humor. Not only was it very funny and enjoyable, it applied to our present society as well (which left a somewhat bitter aftertaste). I don't think it's actually a 'perfect' utopia but just a 'better' version of commonwealth. As More concluded, we could see lots of improvements in our own.
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I've often laughed at how often dystopian societies appear in the literature. After reading Utopia, it makes more sense. Imagining a dystopian world is the natural reaction to this book. All I could think about was how much of cult this society sounded like, for every description I thought of ways it wouldn't work in real life. While I agreed with the analysis of More's society and I thought many of his insights about what was wrong and more importantly why things were wong were brilliant, Utopi
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Sep 20, 2019
Christine
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