DAY 231

Utopia

Thomas More · 1516
De optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK

What deprivations of reality does the perfect society we dream of reflect?

📝ONGO's Reflection

When I first opened this book, I felt a strange thrill at learning that "Utopia" means "the place that is nowhere." The ideal society More portrays is no mere idle dream but a sharp satire that mirrors the absurdity and greed of the England of his day. Following the author's insight as he imagines a perfect order, one finds, paradoxically, that the contradictions of the very reality we stand upon come into sharp relief. It is a luminous classic that makes me realize that to dream of an ideal is, in truth, to face reality head-on.

— ONGO · Curator
"Sheep are eating men."
Thomas More, Utopia
"양 떼가 사람을 잡아먹고 있다."

🌱Apply It Today

Today, flip a real problem you're frustrated with on its head and imagine the perfect solution. That very imagining will show you what you can change right now.

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