Friday, June 11, 2010

161 / Utopia

I have always believed in "utopian" thinking; that is, I have believed in it since my undergraduate days, when I studied "Utopia" for two years, as a participant in an Honors Program in Social Thought and Institutions.

The Honors Program was headed by Charles Drekmeier, and it was a life-changing experience for me. The lesson I took away was that the world we inhabit is not, truly, a "given," and that our individual and collective actions can transform reality.

2 comments:

  1. Great
    We need more like you
    Thank you
    Lets have a visioning for utopia, Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay.
    Lets save the best of what we are given and improve the things that we could make better.
    If we can't bring heaven down here, then where else?

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