“Awesome, horrible, or a little bit of both?”
In my text “Utopia” I used an unusual writing style to convey a utopia.
The style of argument I used was “playfully systematic”. In my book I used a lot of sarcasm and satire. Now, read through “Utopia” once, and it sounds like I'm a control freak and a jerk. Stating things like “Women, for the most part, deal in wool and flax, which suit best with their weakness.”, “Throughout the island they wear the same sort of clothes; The fashion never alters.”, and “No family may have less than ten and more than sixteen persons in it”. Yea, see, that doesn't sound like fun. But, as one reads closer, you can see the point that I am trying to make (or se we think). Utopia, or a perfect world without wars or famine or poverty etc. is impossible without “crazy” or “controversial” rules like these. Do I really believe this would be the perfect utopia? Or am I mocking the idea of one?