Utopia Is Just A Dream - Or Is It?!
Utopia Is Just A Dream - Or Is It?! The perfect world? What does that look like? We have countless books and movies exploring what it in fact could look like, although ironically, most of them turn into dystopias… and there are many reasons for this. Merriam Webster’s definition of “utopia” is as follows: a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions The person who first coined the term utopia was English humanist Sir Thomas More, who published a book titled Utopia in 1516. It compared social and economic conditions in Europe with those of an ideal society on an imaginary island located off the coast of the Americas. “There’s quite literally no place like utopia.{...}More wanted to imply that the perfect conditions on his fictional island could never really exist, so he called it “Utopia,” a name he created by combining the Greek words ou (“not, no”) and topos (“place”). The earliest generic use of utopia was for an imaginary and in...
