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the term utopia entered the Modern
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English lexicon from the abbreviated
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title of Sir Thomas Moore's 16th century
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work a truly golden little book not less
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beneficial than enjoyable about how
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things should be in a state and about
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the new island Utopia Utopia is a Greek
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word meaning no place which more chose
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over the Latin
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nqu which in my opinion was the right
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choice as it's far more catchy Moore
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served as Harry VII's Lord High
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Chancellor of England from 1529 to 1532
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and was a distinguished judge Theologian
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philosopher Statesman and noted
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renissance man in the literal sense of
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the word Utopia as envisaged by Mo was
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described as a communistic island nation
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in the New World in which the population
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was instructed as to how and where they
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would live with houses rotated between
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them every decade and no property
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ownership each person must take up a
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necessary TR to ensure that they can
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live what would be essentially a Spartan
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life of work to provide for the whole
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Utopia would contain a slave class of
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foreign captives or criminals weighed
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down by golden chains until they are
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eventually and symbolically freed as
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displays of wealth were something from
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which people were to be liberated travel
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across the island required a papers
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pleasa system of internal checkpoints
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and passports other Innovations would
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include a welfare state euthanasia and
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communal dining halls in which everyone
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ate the same food pubs and taverns were
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not permitted and personal relationships
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were policed by the state rendering
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premarital sex and infidelity criminal
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acts while divorce is easy to obtain
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there was to be no such thing as privacy
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in Utopia each person's Behavior was
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expected to be on full display so that
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the whole might serve as a check upon
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the individual to maintain a strict
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regime of public virtue from this the
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term utopia entered into modern
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discourse as a description of a
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Fantastical perfect country well
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governed and populated by good and
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virtuous people this puts into context
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what a dystopia Greek for bad place
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actually is and how it's brought
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about a Utopia is created when the state
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and its class of philosopher kings are
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given unlimited license to rationally
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recreate Society to produce outcomes
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which are outside of the normal
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consequences of free Human Action by
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introducing artificial barriers to
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behavior that serve to support the
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system itself rather than the good of
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the people it rules over a dystopia is
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when this system produces undesirable
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results now it might not surprise you to
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learn that this is not my ideal vision
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of the future in fact to me it's seems
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that the term utopia and dystopia would
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simply be synonyms given this level of
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top- down social organization however
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this is the Paradigm of the 20th century
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and I think the proliferation of
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dystopian literature during this time
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reflects the subconscious fear of what
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has been set in motion I've noticed that
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dystopian fiction doesn't seem to be
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nearly as popular as it once was
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Wikipedia has a convenient list of
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notable dystopian fictions and if this
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list is accurate then it seems that the
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genre properly began in the 19th century
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and fully matured in the 20th which
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produced hundreds of notable works this
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cultural production of the deepest fears
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of the modern mind carried on at PACE
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into the 2000s apparently expanding in
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parallel into the young adult genre
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right through to the end of the
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2010s but in the 2020s it all but
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stops it seems that the cultural
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appetite for dystopia has dried up
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somewhat I suppose perhaps Wikipedia's
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list isn't accurate or exhaustive I'm
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not personally a tremendous reader of
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dystopian fiction and I don't follow the
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genre but one can have been noticed that
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the collective psyche of our
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civilization no longer needs to
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fantasize about what things are like
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when they start getting bad everyone
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seems to expect that a dystopia would
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somehow be announced or that the people
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living within one would be conscious
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about the fact that their world was
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oppressive antihuman but it's evident
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that dystopias begin in optimism and end
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in unfathomable sorrow and I think we're
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arriving at that place now there are so
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many things that were taken for granted
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that are just missing from our lives at
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this point and we didn't even notice
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them disappear it's just that one day
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you realize that things have changed and
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not for the better and it isn't readily
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apparent how they might be fixed without
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substantive systemic change and the
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systems control is so solidified by this
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point that it would require something
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truly radical to bring about a different
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state of affairs because these were
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often intangible things that have simply
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been taken away from young people today
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we didn't imagine that the utopian
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liberal experiment of the latter half of
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the 20th century could go so very wrong
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for example safety on the streets was
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just a given of course our towns and
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cities are safe nobody really questioned
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why they were and assumed that it would
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always be this way because as far as
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anyone could remember it had always been
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this way however now people do not feel
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as if the streets are safe and this
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feeling appears to be validated when you
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consider the composition of the people
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on our streets and of our government's
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willingness to treat criminals as if
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they were the best of us it's hard to
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believe that an actual Army of murderers
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has been allowed to illegally enter the
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United States and has been given leave
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to remain at large indefinitely Or that
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the British government decided one day
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to Simply let out criminals early
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because they had become an inconvenience
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to keep but here we are did we really
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expect at the end of the 19th century
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with the Advent of the socialistic
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mindset of command and control over iety
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that it would create a depressing
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unesthetic gray plastic world of petty
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bureaucracy and an entire culture of
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zombie workers who aren't even sure why
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they exist our cities are more like ant
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colonies they are for work and people
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live there like drones until they can't
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take it anymore and have extracted
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enough sap from the system to be able to
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escape to the
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countryside why are we trapped inside of
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a system everyone is attempting to flee
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can we not put a pause on the
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degradation of our own towns and cities
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and have a conversation about whether we
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are heading in the right direction or
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not this is clearly not a wholesome
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State of Affairs why is it that nearly a
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quarter of Americans are on therapy and
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God knows how many others are on
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anti-depressant drugs this trend is only
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likely to grow as the total Society
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continue to expand its reach over
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increasingly minute aspects of daily
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life but we never question the nature of
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therapy itself which is to train people
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who know they are living an unnatural
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and unhealthy lifestyle to accept this
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fate and not fight against it the very
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nature and purpose of therapy is to make
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sure they continue to do it anyway but
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to what end this clearly doesn't serve
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the person who needs the therapy it
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serves something else external to them
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what the hell are we doing the purpose
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of our civilization is revealed in the
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way it is designed to relate to us let's
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take McDonald's as a paradigmatic
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example of how things have changed when
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I was young in the ' 80s and '90s
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McDonald's buildings were inviting and
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revolved around families they were
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bright cartoony and often had a play
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park that the kids could go and enjoy
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they had character and the purpose of
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them was for something a family could do
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on a Saturday afternoon go and enjoy
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some junk food and get out of the house
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together for a few hours all fast food
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restaurants were like this indeed most
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public spaces either revolved around the
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needs of children or made some
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accommodation for them to be an adult is
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to realize that life really isn't about
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you it's about others and that that's
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what gives you purpose and meaning it's
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what prevents you from needing therapy
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that all seems natural and right doesn't
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it a civilization that is built around
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children is a civilization that believes
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it has a future it is a civilization
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that is working for itself and not
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something else however a civilization
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built around adults trapped in an
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extended state of adolescents who expect
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to enjoy their adult activities without
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consideration for the sensitivities of
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children
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is a civilization which is basically
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given up compare the old McDonald's to
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the modern McDonald's that you will see
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in every town and City why does it have
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to look like this who are their
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prospective customers it is certainly
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not inviting and evidently represents a
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spirit of efficiency which wants to get
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you out of the door as quickly as
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possible preferably serving people who
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don't want to stay in there in the first
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place people who have no responsib
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abilities Beyond sitting in their
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cubicle and doing their unimportant
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email jobs in order to afford junk food
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and Funko Pops until they go home to
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their tiny bedsit and sit alone until
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the next day what is the plan here just
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exist until you die remain in the Soviet
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star McDonald's as a consumptive unit
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until you expire and are composted to
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become the fertilizer for the other
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drones what are we doing the warmth of
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our civilization has been drained out
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because it wasn't clear how this
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contributed to productivity nobody is
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going to think to complain about this
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state of affairs as they wander around
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their Bland modernist streets to collect
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their cheap food assuming they didn't
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just have it delivered to their tiny
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neon pod by an immigrant anyway it's no
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wonder that a quarter of young people
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aren't intending to have kids look at
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the world they're inhabiting why would
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they want to inflict that on someone
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else and this is all the consequence of
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the maintenance of a system that our
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modern philosopher Kings believe will
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bring us into
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Utopia it's the only tool they recognize
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as even having the capacity to improve
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the world and so they are determined to
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use it to their utmost despite the fact
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that the more top- down control that is
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exerted by them the worse things are
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getting and ultimately this is the Crux
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of the question of replacement
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migration much has been made of the un's
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replacement migration study which
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approaches the problem of population
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from the position of the system itself
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as they say in the executive summary
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they're interested in monitoring our
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societies as if they had a duty to
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maintain themselves for the system
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itself why are they doing this well to
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maintain the required number of workers
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that would uphold the system's welfare
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commitments that's it not because it
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will make human life better not because
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it will make the world more pleasant to
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live in the dystopia has been created
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because the system demanded it in the
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conclusion they explain why replacement
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migration is a good and necessary policy
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quote in the absence of migration the
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size of the working age population
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declines faster than the overall
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population as a result of this faster
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rate of decline the amount of migration
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needed to prevent a decline in the
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working age population is larger than
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that for the overall population
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they need workers and as far as they're
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concerned workers are basically all the
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same so we can flood our countries with
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foreign peoples regardless of the
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physical and psychic damage this does to
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us and our civilizations because
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otherwise the system through which they
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intended to bring us to Utopia will fail
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but when we leave the managerial world
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of abstractions and look at the world as
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it really is on the ground level we find
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it a deteriora
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unwelcoming and alien Place devoid of
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beauty of Harmony of happiness in
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putting the system over the people
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themselves we have created a nightmarish
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World in which atrocities have become
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normalized misery is our daily habit and
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terminating our own family lines becomes
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the only way out of what has otherwise
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become a prison Without
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Walls this is the the dystopia in the
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here and now we are living in it if you
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would like to support me and help keep
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me out of the dystopia I would like to
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support you too this is why Islander
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magazine exists to help you on your
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journey through our modern dystopia and
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hopefully out of the other side and
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issue two is on its final week of sale
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this week we have assembled the finest
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dissident minds of Our Generation to
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pierce through the mysticism of
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modernity to understand the human cost
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of everything each magazine has a theme
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and issue to's theme has been the
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lifting of The Veil The Apocalypse as it
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were it is clear that we are moving into
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a new world in which utopianism is
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reaching its final Terminus and each of
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the articles in Islander reflects on a
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different aspect of that it will not be
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