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Back in 1989, the American philosopher Francis Fukuyama already noted that we had arrived in an era where life has been reduced to “economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.”
There’s no new dream to replace it because we can’t imagine a better world than the one we’ve got. In fact, most people in wealthy countries believe children will actually be worse off than their parents.1
The Italian poet Tommaso Campanella’s The City of the Sun (1602) offers a good example. In his utopia, or rather dystopia, individual ownership is strictly prohibited, everybody is obliged to love everybody else, and fighting is punishable by death
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