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ArkyBeagle on Oct 6, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Return of the Utopians

But a Utopia is really adherence to some perfect Platonic form, not the sort of greasy compromise necessary to accommodate the crooked timber of humanity.

Design in general is bad, if the design overrides all other measurement and input.

Wasn't More's book a reductio anyway?

eli_gottlieb on Oct 6, 2016 [–]

>But a Utopia is really adherence to some perfect Platonic form,

There's no such thing as a Platonic form.

ArkyBeagle on Oct 6, 2016 | [–]

Precisely.

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