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Definition of utopianism
1 : a utopian idea or theory
2 often capitalized : the body of ideas, views, or aims of a utopian
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Some of that Utopianism was hardwired into the show's basic premise, in which money, war, and racial discrimination are things of the distant past.
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But when Marshall McLuhan, the high priest of Canadian techno-utopianism, coined that term in the early 1960s, a world improved by new media really did seem in the offing.
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But, in a deeper sense, the mid-century overtaking of utopianism by dystopianism marked the rise of modern conservatism: a rejection of the idea of the liberal state.
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In Silicon Valley, a certain kind of techno-utopianism and obsession with the apocalypse go hand-in-hand.
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Design that goes this far beyond the call of duty, and stays clear of the blanding influence of the mass market, can’t help but tap into our Aquarian emotions — stuff about utopianism, the creation of a better world.
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1649
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