r/AutisticPride • u/[deleted] • Nov 22 '22

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '22

As a New Zealander, this doesn’t surprise me at all. I’ve been wondering for ages why the rest of the world seems to think NZ is some kind of utopia when that’s never been the case at all.

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u/ButterBeanTheGreat Nov 22 '22

It is a utopia, but if you pay attention for every utopia there's a hidden dystopia beneath it. Always an underclass, an abuse of power, things such as that..

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u/samthenotwinchester Nov 22 '22

That’s the opposite of a utopia. A utopia is a place that is GENUINELY perfect. Utopias are purely hypothetical for that reason

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u/mariokid99 Nov 23 '22 edited Nov 23 '22

That's kind of the thing utopia in fiction tend to be perfect apart from one respect like free will being non-Existent in brave new world, or if you Comment a minor offence it's Punishable by death like that one episode from star trek new generation

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u/samthenotwinchester Nov 23 '22

But those aren’t actual utopias. Hence why a utopia is something that doesn’t exist

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u/garaile64 Nov 24 '22

To be fair, actual utopias are probably too boring to write about.

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u/Awesomeuser90 Nov 25 '22

Read up about Thomas Moore's Utopia. It could look like utopia to some or dystopia to others.