I first started doing some somewhat technology-based shows in the ’80s. If you wanted to get real technical about it, back in the ’70s I used to open up with Utopia with just me on the stage with a four-track tape recorder. So, technically, I’ve been using the help of various devices pretty much throughout my career.
Utopia would mean a park – some large, some small – every four or five blocks.
Activists have every right to espouse their views of utopia.
After Hurricane Sandy, we saw the hellish world that the gun prohibitionists see as their utopia. Looters ran wild in south Brooklyn. There was no food, water or electricity. And if you wanted to walk several miles to get supplies, you better get back before dark, or you might not get home at all.
Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth’s great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.
Utopia means elsewhere.
The president’s dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.
Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn’t exist.
The reason I namecheck restorative justice so much is because that, to me, is the utopia.
The overall vision for ‘Utopia’ was somewhat of a mix between fantasy, future, and ancient China. All of it soaked in a pastel space sauce to capture the uber positive energy of the music.
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man’s nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
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