The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.
Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning.
(n.) The ideas, views, aims, etc., of a Utopian; impracticable schemes of human perfection; optimism.
People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.
He had been very keen on Esperanto, which had seemed an absurd eccentricity at the time but now Ursula thought it might be a good thing to have a universal language, as Latin had once been. Oh, yes, M...
Psychology at best tells us how things are, not how they are supposed to be! There is no utopic science.
It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
And then, said Sarnac, I remember that I made a prophecy. I made it - when did I make it? Two thousand years ago? Or two weeks ago? I sat in Fanny's little sitting-room, an old-world creature amidst h...