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- noun Plural form of
utopia .
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Examples
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The problem with utopias is that I start looking for the pile of bodies behind the dumpster.
Looking Backward: Dissent and the American Panopticon Erika Nelson 2009
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The problem with utopias is that I start looking for the pile of bodies behind the dumpster.
Archive 2009-02-01 Erika Nelson 2009
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Were this not the case we would all be living in utopias entirely free of prejudice, as there would be no counterforce to the efforts and abilities of individuals to dismantle prejudice, in themselves and others, as and when they recognise it as unjust.
There's No Prescribing Prescriptivism Hal Duncan 2009
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Were this not the case we would all be living in utopias entirely free of prejudice, as there would be no counterforce to the efforts and abilities of individuals to dismantle prejudice, in themselves and others, as and when they recognise it as unjust.
Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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His later Oz books reflect the Gilded Age's interest in utopias, as in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backwards.
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"The problem with utopias is that I start looking for the pile of bodies behind the dumpster."
Looking Backward: Dissent and the American Panopticon Erika Nelson 2009
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His later Oz books reflect the Gilded Age's interest in utopias, as in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backwards.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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The obnoxious, militaristic mindset of the Freehold and the creepiness of the Uchidans made them pariahs in human space and each culture got settled on some out of the way dust-balls to pursue their "utopias" in peace until The Shoal invoked the "evacuation clause" on the Uchidans planet and the Consortium settled them on another continent on the sparsely populated Freehold planet.
The Dakota Merrick Series: "Stealing Light and Nova War" by Gary Gibson (reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2009
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In the collectivist "utopias" they are the only ones who have any wealth, and they are the "ubermenschen" and rule along side with the political deities of the realm:
Archive 2009-03-01 Dr. Sanity 2009
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It seems unlikely, then, that these "utopias" can ever actually be utopian for anyone except those who have disengaged from the possibility of improving the actual world that we live in.
Archive 2007-03-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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