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Re:The limitations of Steven Pinker’s optimism by truculation on Monday February 26, 2018 @01:11AM (#16463496)
I suspect your dystopias have in common that they all had utopian visions. Instead of focusing on real problems and making gradual progress they kept talking about building heaven on earth. Apparently they just needed to tear down existing institutions and kill a few people first...
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Re:The limitations of Steven Pinker’s optimism by chongli on Monday February 26, 2018 @08:38AM (#16465132)
Instead of focusing on real problems and making gradual progress

That's a protopia [0], not a utopia. A utopia is a radical, top-down, planned society based on some ideology.

[0] http://kk.org/thetechnium/protopia/

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