Studies suggest that brains may be wired with either a utopian or a tragic view of the world, corresponding roughly to liberals and conservatives.
Previously I examined how those with a utopian view of the world (liberals) seek equal results, whereas those with a more tragic view (conservatives) only seek a fair process.
Traders drooled with a utopian passion until one day last September when ardor suddenly cooled.
Those with a utopian view of the world judge power by the outcome.
Or they have put forward a utopian view of what it should be.
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Ultimately, the project was abandoned, deemed a utopian idea that ultimately proved impractical.
It will fail first in its own terms, because laisser-faire is a Utopian folly: it cannot be built, only (unsuccessfully) attempted.
Price stability is a utopian concept on its best day that would hamper innovation on the way to reduced living standards.
Netanyahu's own lesson from the Spanish Inquisition is that for Jews, assimilation is as much of a utopian path as socialism.
Silver talks wistfully about a utopian future where everyone creates their own unique space instead of settling for cookie-cutter homes or furnishings or decorations.
Others pine for a utopian channel devoid of commercial interruption.
To the above some, and maybe Chavez too, would argue that a United States marked by a limited federal government is a utopian dream very much in our rear-view mirror.
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His last big project was a Utopian community in Florida, in which he tried to use technology to rid modern life of its concomitant ills, notably urban sprawl and intrusive motor cars.
She is also a historian, with a Cambridge doctorate in early French utopian socialism, followed by a research fellowship in the history of ideas, and she has carved out an estimable place for herself in an energetically brainy family: her father is the biographer A. N.
To avoid being tagged a "net utopian, " Mr. Johnson warns that the Internet is not a cure-all.
Gingrich is a radical utopian and supremely nasty fantasist.
But Google's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) utopian project has hit a few bumps in the five months since it was announced, and Google is in the rare position of having to defend itself.
This isn't to say that I would ever want to give up my computer, much less antibiotics, but it does argue for a more measured approach than the usual utopian fantasies in which we all indulge when a new technology rolls onto the scene.
People would still buy the BMW 3 series today even if the car came out of the gate with a name like Utopian Turtletop.
It pushes us to look towards the practical and reject the utopian while simultaneously maintaining that a truly free and equal social order is within our grasp.
Then came the Saint-Simonians, followers of a French aristocrat and Utopian socialist, who dreamed that global harmony would involve, among other things, better transport links (the builder of the Suez Canal was a believer).
Foster's critics dismiss his ideas as a dystopian, rather than utopian, dream.
For old lefties like Mr Talat and Mr Christofias, who take the line that their island's people would get along fine if ultra-nationalists in their respective motherlands would only allow it, this is a resonant, if rather Utopian, call to action.
The Utopian destination imagined by the LTV formula is a mirage.
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The garden, still tended today, was a present they sorely needed since they were broke after Hawthorne failed to secure a refund upon quitting the nearby utopian community Brook Farm.
The dangerous confusion is, as so often in well-meaning economic rule-making, one of mistaking an ideal-utopian labor world (where even unskilled workers make a decent living from the get-go) with the world as it is: one where the value-creation of labor, not utopian ideals, sets the price.
First, by ignoring the real interests of the US and its allies in favor of utopian peace, Wilson's vision of postwar peace was a flight of fancy predicated on a rejection of reality.
Alt-folk singer-songwriter Sean Hayes may not have generated much name recognition beyond the San Francisco area, where his early acoustic performances provided a welcome and humanizing respite from the tech-utopian music scene of the mid-'90s.
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