I'm the cream
Of the great utopia dream.
And you're in the gleam
In the depths of your banker's spleen.
--
Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly DazedDavid Bowie
The world's great age begins anew,
The golden years return,
The earth doth like a snake renew
Her winter weeds outworn;
Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam,
Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mannheim notes that utopia not only shares with ideology a noncongruence with reality, but that utopia offers a perspective critical of the given reality, thus exposing the gap between what is and an ideal of what should be. Utopia, in challenging the existing order, is always a projection into possible futures; whereas, ideology, in legitimating the existing order, is directed toward perpetuating the past. Utopia tends to be the tool of social groups seeking ascendancy; while ideology tends to be the tool of dominant groups seeking to assuage their own sense of failing and justify the inadequacy of the status quo. Ideology and utopia are about power.
Karl Mannheim
Every utopia about to be realized resembles a cynical dream.
Emil Cioran
Is all our Life, then but a dream
Seen faintly in the goldern gleam
Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?Lewis Carroll
Is all our Life, then but a dream
Seen faintly in the goldern gleam
Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?Charles (Lewis Carroll) Dodgson
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