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The genre pertains to the man of civilization stuck in a primitive society, either by choice (as is true of anthropologists or missionaries or warriors) or against their choice (such as Robinson Crusoe finding himself stranded on a Pacific island); it is a favorite tool of writers with broad enlightenment leanings, because it allows them to posit utopia's contours against an empty backdrop -- or what we civilized people see as empty.
Anis Shivani: Torsten Krol's The Dolphin People : A Great Utopian Parable for Our Savage Times 2010
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The genre pertains to the man of civilization stuck in a primitive society, either by choice (as is true of anthropologists or missionaries or warriors) or against their choice (such as Robinson Crusoe finding himself stranded on a Pacific island); it is a favorite tool of writers with broad enlightenment leanings, because it allows them to posit utopia's contours against an empty backdrop -- or what we civilized people see as empty.
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Thus they must "stack the deck" and take absolute control over the thinking of the utopia's future citizens.
Archive 2009-05-01 Dr. Sanity 2009
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Pick up your student bus-pass and travel to one of our multicultural utopia's - and then live there - for ever.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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"I'm also wary of the revolutionary ambition of some feminist texts, with their ideas about changing present conditions, having seen enough attempted utopia's for one lifetime."
Women in Transition - From Post Feminism to Past Femininity 2006
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I call the left wing extremists the PC utopia fascists because they have this politically correct utopia vision in their minds and that's nice, utopia's a nice idea, but reality is nowhere close to utopia.
Get to Know Ben Marble, an Interview with the Guy Who Told Dick Cheney to Go Fuc* Himself. 2005
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"This city has a soul like no other, the air you breath is like no where else, and the ground you walk on is holy like utopia's most sacret street"
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"This city has a soul like no other, the air you breath is like no where else, and the ground you walk on is holy like utopia's most sacret street"
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Those that can be induced to march with their view limited by the blinding light of a shining utopia's promised heaven, wind up arriving in hell.
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2010
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Again, if Kirk embodies the ugly capitalist who keeps utopia's engine progressing, there's some promise in the suggestion.
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