Turns out that "utopia" is portmanteau (nod to ED) created in 1516 by Sir Thomas More of two Greek words:
Ou ("not") and Topos("place").
In other words, utopias do not exist by definition! No wonder all utopian novels are so depressing.
Begs the question for the need for the 'dystopian' (Bad Place) sub-genre of science fiction, doesn't it?
To add more irony to the tale, apparently More's Utopia was a place where decisions are made by reason and logic: Clearly never going to happen as we are simply electing leaders from reality TV shows 500 years later.
If humans can't get to that "not place" because we don't make decisions based on logic and reason, maybe we should just have computers run the world. Oh, wait - that takes us to the "bad place"...
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| Utopia = Dystopia |
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