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Jes don't mess with my

Oxy Mora — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:36:40 +0000

In reply to Youtopia, mytopia. Eden is in

Jes don't mess with my utopia.

And I ain't payin no mandate, either. Got that, buddy?

Youtopia, mytopia. Eden is in

Richard Day — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:02:59 +0000

In reply to Ronnie Whitelaw's Utopia

Youtopia, mytopia.

Eden is in the eyes of the beholder!

Thanks, you're probably right

Oxy Mora — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:19:53 +0000

In reply to A sad story. I would have

Thanks, you're probably right on that. On the other hand I've been trying to understand something. That is, why folks who seem to have little do, for example, so hate the idea of a mandate when it would be so beneficial to them. Then I had the thought, maybe it's the lack of a mandate that enables them to maintain a certain fantasy about their utopia. A utopia doesn't have to be good in anyone else's terms, just in one's own terms and something like a mandate bursts the bubble, like an unwelcome intrusion. In fact, the reality of a mandate, say a specific fine, is not that significant. But the fact that it bursts a bubble is huge.

So I probably overthought it. But this story just kept coming to me so I put it out there, which is what this exercise is all about. Sometimes it's hard to tell something in plain constructs the way you feel it. The story seemed to express it better. But I do think a parsing of utopias is germane, maybe not in this form.

It was odd how the story seemed to unfold in my mind, as if from someone else.

A sad story. I would have

Donal — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:17:48 +0000

In reply to I hope this short story will

A sad story. I would have posted this in Creative Corner.

I hope this short story will

Oxy Mora — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:45:36 +0000

In reply to Ronnie Whitelaw's Utopia

I hope this short story will be accepted in lieu of a piece on Utopianism which I have been trying to write in regular form, but haven't been able to put into words which express the underlying constructs. I think many of us in our own way think of a version of utopia, where things are in harmony, where we don't have to try so damned hard to compete and get ahead, where we can sit a spell. It's an elusive dream. But it's an important dream. We mess with our own utopia, or someone else's, in peril.