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Commonplaces
Piquant excerpts lifted from Touchstone editors' own reading & listening.
Utopian endeavors inevitably produce totalitarian results. Trying to build a perfect society out of imperfect people is more daunting than the Labors of Hercules. Usually sooner rather than later, those in charge start reforming people by killing them. So the simple formula is:
utopia + time (a variable) = dystopia.
—Nelson L. Dawson
Democracy Betrayed (Algora Publishing, 2020)
— Society — Commonplaces #110 — Nov/Dec 2021 —
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