Ideal Worlds - Utopias and Dystopias
November 24, 2000
Participants: Hiroko Hosaka, Miwako Hosaka, Julie Leff, Jenny Leff, Heather McConnell, Jesse Goodglass, Julian Sanchez, Brett Mole, Leslie Van Gelder, Leigh Neithardt
Are there ideal worlds? What does it say about our world if we're looking for another? What do the idea of afterlives say about our present lives? Ah the questions of Utopias.
Who could resist an exhibit at the New York Public Library focusing on Utopias? Surely not the survivors of Brit Lit...Having read Utopia, Gulliver, The Time Machine, Brave New World and Lord of the Flies in high school, plus a few more books that raised Utopian questions in book club (surely the Phantom Tollbooth counts!) we were certified experts in the questions of Utopias. At the exhibit we got to see first editions of some of our favorites and we could ask some of those questions about ideal worlds.
Over dinner in a Thai restaurant in Greenwich Village we continued our conversation about the various forms of society and their possibilities in our current world. Good discussion, great pad thai, and then an evening of music courtesy of Lucy Kaplansky and Ellis Paul.... many ideal worlds have bright people, good conversation, good food and music...we seemed to have it all.
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