Posted by G.H. Hovagimyan on April 15, 1996 at 18:24:03:
In Reply to: Re: Utopia/ Millenium go round. posted by Jaime J. Rietheimer on April 10, 1996 at 18:06:40:
: : Well--as I am incredible optimist myself, I
: too, agree utopia is possible. But my definition
: of utopia has become corrupted and diluted.
: More-over, I no longer seem to know what it means.
: Text book definition, defines it as an ideal society.
: Okay, fine. Going further ideal means perfect.
: Okay, good! Well it seems people perception of
: perfection changes dramtically through their life.
From The Seeds of Time by Fredric Jameson, 1994,
Columbia University Press, Page 74. "What human
relations might be without commodification, what a
life world without advertising might look like , what
what narratives would model the lives of people empty
of the foreign bodies of business and profit...."
Jameson goes on to say that we're all so entrenched in
capitalism we cannot even envision another society.
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