Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.
I'm a utopianist.
Utopia means elsewhere.
Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.
It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm.
'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness.
I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.