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Attaining the Worlds Beyond

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...re of such utopias has been proven throughout history, particularly in ancient communities, in the former USSR and in other attempts to build socialis... ...egoism constitutes our nature in this world and altruism is considered to be a utopian notion, they are perceivedasoppositebythosewhooccupytherealmoft...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

.... The fourth and last pilot project involves the formation of “Voucher Communities”. These are communities of unemployed workers organized in eac... .... The fourth and last pilot project involves the formation of “Voucher Communities”. These are communities of unemployed workers organized in eac... ... They pay each other with voucher money. The unemployed members of these communities are allowed to use voucher money to pay for certain public go... ...elevant state agencies. An intriguing solution is the municipal "voucher communities" of unemployed workers, who trade goods and services among the... ...dministration (EDA) supports "economically-distressed areas, regions, and communities". The International Trade Administration (ITA) helps exporters... ...ly, this dystopian future may well be the inevitable outcome of this most utopian period - the present. Immigrants and the Fallacy of Labour Scarc...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...uence, and of the pernicious effects he has on their nearest, dearest, and communities. Invariably, they seek to banish him and extricate themselve... ...of Progress Communism, Fascism, Nazism, and Religious Fundamentalism are as utopian as the classical Idea of Progress, which is most strongly reifie... ...on III was a man for all seasons - a buffer against socialism as well as a utopian social and administrative reformer. Business flourished under Nap...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...ion, the more multifaceted and intractable the conflicts. Rabid nationalism against utopian regionalism, fascism (really, opportunism) versus libera... ...riat, recognized the Christian's right to form their own religiously self-governing communities. These communities were not confined to the orde... ... because only the cities provided basic amenities. Even in the cities, though, the communities lived segregated in "mahalles" (quarters). Everyone ... ...nds again. Exemptions from this barbarous practice were offered only to select communities which somehow contributed to Ottoman rule in the Bal... ... will then explore the variance in the Ottoman attitudes towards various Christian communities and the reasons underlying this diversity of treatme... ...mmunities and the reasons underlying this diversity of treatment modalities. The Communities of God "From the beginning, people of different la...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...arrow (and familiar) form of political anarchism springs from the belief that human communities can survive and thrive through voluntary cooperation... ...wed to partake the food and wine of gentiles and have kept their distance from the communities which they inhabited - maintaining tenaciously, thro... ...ic example of preemptive self-defense. Its outcomes, however, deeply divide Jewish communities everywhere, especially in Israel. Many of us believe... ...invariably presented themselves as concerned with the pursuit and realization of a utopian program based on the emergence of a "new man" (in German... ... mental splitting mechanism (all bad or all good, black or white) is typical of all utopian movements. Similarly, Stalin (not a fascist) embarked on... ... between the pole of malignant individualism and that of lethal collectivism. III. Utopianism vs. Struggle Fascism was constantly in the making, et... ...as based on the negation of other social forces, in permanent civil war). It was a utopian movement in search of a utopia. Many of the elements of ... ...rictures. As opposed to politics and culture - where fascism was revolutionary and utopian - socially, fascism was reactionary, regressive, and def... ...ainable. Modern cities are, therefore, likely to fragment into urban islands: gated communities, slums, strips, technology parks and "valleys", belt...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...arrow (and familiar) form of political anarchism springs from the belief that human communities can survive and thrive through voluntary cooperation... ...wed to partake the food and wine of gentiles and have kept their distance from the communities which they inhabited - maintaining tenaciously, thro... ...ic example of preemptive self-defense. Its outcomes, however, deeply divide Jewish communities everywhere, especially in Israel. Many of us believe... ...invariably presented themselves as concerned with the pursuit and realization of a utopian program based on the emergence of a "new man" (in German... ... mental splitting mechanism (all bad or all good, black or white) is typical of all utopian movements. Similarly, Stalin (not a fascist) embarked on... ... between the pole of malignant individualism and that of lethal collectivism. III. Utopianism vs. Struggle Fascism was constantly in the making, et... ...as based on the negation of other social forces, in permanent civil war). It was a utopian movement in search of a utopia. Many of the elements of ... ...rictures. As opposed to politics and culture - where fascism was revolutionary and utopian - socially, fascism was reactionary, regressive, and def... ...ainable. Modern cities are, therefore, likely to fragment into urban islands: gated communities, slums, strips, technology parks and "valleys", belt...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...hat moves us forward. ―Adler was clear about the essential place of social interest in one‘s mental health. We are ‗in‘ and ‗of‘ our commun... ...society to a more humane and truly human reality. More truly human people will think rather similarly about what is needed as we evolve in our utopia... ...human thinking are primary in the pursuit of a satisfying life. The self actualized person is honest. Honesty is an absolute requirement for a utopia...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...who are not so stuck on themselves and are doing selfless things in their communities.‖ —―Of course. But the general tendency is obvious. It s... ...g became too desirable, the hours were increased. ―One of the few utopian ideas that elicited some real political interest was the economic ... ...that their Leninist government had taken from them. ―While not a utopian ideal, the concept of democracy has gained many supporters in the ... ...tors that must be considered in hypothesizing the best type of society, a utopian society, will take several hours just to scratch the surface. Do yo... ...ow that it will be time consuming, but it is essential in our quest for a utopian world. I can see that to set up a utopian society based on a religi... ... the budget. Whenever a recession hits their tax revenues decrease. Local communities may get some help from the states, for example with schools. T... ...n and a basic feeling or equality, of the idea science is necessary for a utopian society, as Bacon thought, may find their way into guiding principl...

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

...ngers. Incest becomes an economic imperative. An incestuous society would be either utopian or dystopian, depending on the reader's point of view - ... ...s a common and socially- condoned practice in certain tribal societies and isolated communities (the Island of Pitcairn). It would, therefore, be wi...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...tion The Crescent and the Cross - A First Encounter The Crescent and the Cross - The Communities of God Islam is not merely a religion. It is also -... ... - the West succeeded to demolish beyond reconstruction whole economies, to ravage communities, to wreak ruination upon the centuries-old social fa... ...d to the first Civil War (1860-5), the Second Civil War (2021-26) was fought within communities and across state boundaries. It was not territorial ... ... rule. It is not hard to see how this set of mind was inherited from the communist utopian terrorist movements that preceded the present Islamist o...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...w economists" admitted to temporary shortages and "bottlenecks" on the way to their utopian paradise of cost-free abundance. Demand always initially... ...ople facilely and callously abrogate their responsibilities towards their families, communities, and nations. The mushrooming rate of divorce, the d... ...ism and pure Marxism have more in common than either would care to admit. Both are utopian. Both are materialistic. Both are doctrinaire. Both beli... ...r capitalism is paternalistic and inclusive. Employees, employers, the government, communities and suppliers are partners in the decision making pr... ...TURE will emerge. Cultures are highly structured reactive patterns adopted by human communities in response to shocks (including positive shocks), t... ... positive shocks), traumas, or drastic changes in circumstances. Cultures to human communities are very much as personalities are to individuals. ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...t in small groups or bands of roughly 24-36 people. This is how large our communities were designed to be. What is a community, or a band? ... ...eration a way of life. But when humans settled down and the size of their communities increased: this all changed. With larger and larger group... ...r in the fields and do nothing else.’ This entire mess was created by human communities increasing in size. Social harmony was systematically des... ... within it. Civilized societies are always larger than 36 people. Civilized communities are always larger than 36 people. Or smaller than 24, or s... ... at least 100,000 years, this was the natural number for the size of all human communities. The entire history of the overpopulation of human specie... ...ered, out-corrupted the natives at every turn. Every attempt to create a new utopian society of religious fanatics that was less corrupt than the E... ...ate noncompetitive model hope to survive… much less succeed. That is why all utopian communities eventually fail: because they are fighting a cultu... ...p your own Sense of Pure Wonder. How can humans ever hope to achieve such a utopian, idyllic, state of pure wonder? Just ask yourself: what if in...

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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

... shadow of impracticability; they were very “advanced” ideas in 1914, very Utopian. Against them was an unbroken mass of mental habit and public tradi... ...k of a World League of Nations would have seemed, to the extremest pitch, “Utopian.” T o-day the project has an air not only of being so practicable, ... ...r is not going to alter this essential fact, that the great educated world communities, with a social and industrial organization on a war-capable sca...

...es. Even to those who expressed these ideas there lay visibly upon them the shadow of impracticability; they were very ?advanced? ideas in 1914, very Utopian....

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

...ays been my intention in this matter. I tried over several beginnings of a Utopian book before I adopted this. I rejected from the outset the form of ... ... subject to be the story of the adven- 7 H G Wells ture of his soul among Utopian inquiries, you will be pre- pared for some at least of the difficul... ...sion- ally succeed in displaying on a screen a momentary moving picture of Utopian conditions. Occasionally the picture goes out altogether, the Voice... ...e Utopias that were written in the former time. Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and cred- ible, if we can, first this facet and then... ... the world of Here and Now. Certain liberties, however, following the best Utopian pre- cedents, we may take with existing fact. We assume that the to... ... of custom, the homely methods of identification that served in the little communities of the past when everyone knew everyone, fail in the face of th... ...they not work for a uniform minimum of labour conditions through all their communities? Why, then, should they not—except in the interests of a few ra...

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First and Last Things : A Confession of Faith and a Rule of Life

By: H. G. Wells

... against such bad analogy. But indeed it is impossible to isolate complete communities of men, or to trace any but rude general resemblances between g... ...tation for example, all those developments that force collective acts upon communities and collective realizations into the minds of men. And the whol... ...num- ber have wanted to go on with them. Several little organiza- tions of Utopians and Samurai and the like have sprung up and informed me of themsel... ... and at the expense of an impoverished debtor is profoundly distasteful to Utopian ideas, and our State insists pretty effectually now upon the partic...

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Sons of the Soil

By: Honoré de Balzac

...al danger better than all dogmatic statements put together. Many oppressed communities will recognize the truth of this picture; many persons secretly... ...overthrown in the provinces, the truth of things is disguised, and country communities snap their fingers at government. In short, after the main publ... ...volent views respecting the condition of the lower classes that our future Utopians, had they heard him, might have thought that the higher grade of g...

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War and the Future; Italy, France and Britain at War

By: H. G. Wells

...which are at the necessary level of industrial development as not the most Utopian of us have hitherto dared to imagine. 5 5 5 5 5 Infantrymen with au... ... 3 3 3 The impression I have of the present mental process in the European communities is that while the official class and the rentier class is think...

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

...of counting and then of writing and making records, and with that his town communities began to stretch out to dominion; in the valleys of the Nile, t... ... together for the nest. This Modern State of ours, which would have been a Utopian marvel a hundred years ago, is already the commonplace of life. But...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...ion, but more usually there are tracks or roads to the centres of adjacent communities, and a certain drift of travel, a certain trade in non-essentia... ...tries when this was the state of affairs, when a countryside of prosperous communities with a healthy family life and a wide distribu- tion of propert... ...ance it fell to him to give the world a noun and an adjec- tive of abuse, “Utopian,” and to record how under the stimu- lus of Plato’s releasing influ... ... extravagance, for example, or the desir- ability of various clothing. The Utopians went all in coarse linen and undyed wool—why should the world be c... ...inst such bad analogy. But, indeed, it is impossible to isolate com- plete communities of men, or to trace any but rude general resemblances between g... ... the test of time and established it- self in the esteem of men is frankly Utopian. Plato, when his mind turned to schemes of social reconstruction th... ...practically Utopias in monologue; and Aristotle found the criticism of the Utopian suggestions of his predecessors richly profitable. Directly the min... ...so I suppose there is hardly an intelligent person in the English-speaking communities who has not thought of some possible remedy—from the naive scol... ...ch as we do about disease and health and strength and power? But these are Utopian questionings. The sane, practical man shakes his head, smiles pityi...

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

...ce in the State. But the Socialists who preceded Marx tended to indulge in Utopian dreams and failed to found any strong or stable political party. T ... ... Trade Unions are able to exact, were turned gradually into self-governing communities, in which the producers could decide all questions of methods, ... ...t stages—and yet, what do we know about it?—or if it is so with some small communities, or separate individuals, brought to sheer de- spair by ill-suc... ...to be produced through the prolonged reign of law. Experience of backwoods communities, mining camps and other such places seems to show that under ne... ...rate conscious effort is made to prevent their real- ization. If the white communities should ever reach the point of wishing to carry out as far as p... ...might be a joy, like the work of the artist, is usually scouted as utterly Utopian. But by far the greater part of these evils are wholly unneces- sar...

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A Treatise on Parents and Children

By: George Bernard Shaw

...eatise on Parents and Children lations, nor allow dead men to control live communities by ridiculous wills and living heirs to squander and ruin great... ...en are now. Still, something can be done even within class lim- its. Large communities of children of the same class are pos- sible today; and volunta... ...rant direction that machinery is danger- ous. We can no more govern modern communities without political machinery than we can feed and clothe them wi... ... imagination, which lack is a merit, but of the realistic, con- structive, Utopian imagination, which lack is a ghastly de- fect. Freedom from imagina...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

...ernment the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities from which the event has resulted can not be compared with th... ...mprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests, so, on another, that the foun dation of our n... ... maintained. Divided into twenty four, or even a smaller number, of separate communities, we shall see our internal trade burdened with numberless res... ...t may molest other countries, regarding them in their actual state as social communities, and preserving a strict neutrality in all their controversie... ... souls, the weaker feeling of the mistaken enthusiast will be corrected, the Utopian dreams of the scheming politician dissipated, and the complicated... ...onstitution for the government and protection of so many States and distinct communities, of such diversified habits, inter ests, and domestic instit...

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

...ence unconsciously and apart from any set purpose. In savage and barbarian communities, such direct par- ticipation (constituting the indirect or inci... ...ern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing cus- toms, traditions, aspirations, and forms o... ...ity life, quite as much as is a family, a town, or a state. There are also communities whose members have little or no direct contact with one another... ...sure of value, this conception applies in the main. But not in progressive communities. They endeavor to shape the experiences of the young so that in... ...ant consideration, makes a democratic community more interested than other communities have cause to be in deliberate and systematic education. The de... ...tating disease is no longer a dream; the hope of abolishing poverty is not utopian. Science has familiarized men with the idea of development, taking ...

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

... money enough on such things as farmers and traders value, but it is thought Utopian to propose spending money for things which more intelligent men k... ... I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have ... ...he pond itself, impaling the legislature for a bait. Thus, even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of developmen...

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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...oney enough on such things as farmers and traders value, but it is thought Utopian to propose spending money for things which more in telligent men k... ... pond itself, impaling the legislature for a bait. Thus, even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of devel opmen...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...e a more particular and more full investigation. A man must be far gone in Utopian speculations who can seriously doubt that, if these States should e... ... the last kind must of necessity, be employed against bodies poli- tic, or communities, or States. It is evident that there is no process of a court b... ...on where the general authority is confined to the collective bodies of the communities, that compose it, every breach of the laws must involve a state... ...eignty over sovereigns, a government over governments, a leg- islation for communities, as contradistinguished from indi- viduals, as it is a solecism... ...s this supremacy is completely vested in the national legisla- ture. Among communities united for particular purposes, it is vested partly in the gene...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...r than literature can have it under similar conditions. So monasteries and communities of sympathetic devotees open their doors, and in their changele... ...An Autobiography, second part, Lon- don, 1890, p. 243. In this respect the Utopian dreams of social justice in which many contemporary socialists and ...

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