11/28/2023 0 Comments Utopia book writerGhodsee whisks you away on a tour through history and around the world to explore those places that have boldly dared to reimagine how we might live our daily lives: from the Danish cohousing communities that share chores and deepen neighborly bonds to matriarchal Colombian ecovillages where residents grow all their own food and from Connecticut, where new laws make it easier for extra “alloparents” to help raise children not their own, to China, where planned microdistricts ensure everything a busy household might need is nearby. In Everyday Utopia, fascinatingly feminist thinker Kristen R. Some of these experiments burned brightly for only a brief while-but others carry on today. The men and women there shared their property, lived as equals, and dedicated themselves to the study of mathematics and the mysteries of the universe.Įver since, humans have been dreaming up better ways to organize how we live together, share our property, raise our children, and determine who’s part of our families. In the 6th century BCE, the Greek philosopher Pythagoras-a man remembered today more for his theorem about right-angled triangles than for his progressive politics-founded a commune in a seaside village in what’s now southern Italy. A dazzling tour through 2,000 years of audacious utopian thinking and experiments, exploring better ways to arrange our daily lives, plus a globetrotting jaunt to the communities already putting these seemingly fanciful visions into practice today.
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