ENG237H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hubris, Protection Racket, Genetic Engineering
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Mercury and human ingenuity: (cid:862)the pu(cid:396)e(cid:396), the (cid:373)o(cid:396)e eu(cid:272)lidea(cid:374) the (cid:396)easo(cid:374) that (cid:271)uilds a utopia, the g(cid:396)eate(cid:396) is its self- dest(cid:396)u(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e (cid:272)apa(cid:272)it(cid:455) the (cid:396)atio(cid:374)alist utopia is a po(cid:449)e(cid:396) t(cid:396)ip. It is a (cid:373)o(cid:374)otheo(cid:272)(cid:396)a(cid:272)(cid:455), de(cid:272)la(cid:396)ed by executive decree, and maintained by willpower; as its premise is progress, not process, it has no habitable present, and speaks only in the future tense. And in the end, reason itself (cid:373)ust (cid:396)eje(cid:272)t it utopia has (cid:271)ee(cid:374) eu(cid:272)lidea(cid:374), it has (cid:271)ee(cid:374) eu(cid:396)opea(cid:374), a(cid:374)d it has (cid:271)ee(cid:374) (cid:373)as(cid:272)uli(cid:374)e. (cid:863) ursula le. Idea is at (cid:449)o(cid:396)k i(cid:374) ro(cid:271)i(cid:374)so(cid:374)"s (cid:374)o(cid:448)el: real valuing of constant creation and transformation, eg. Human body, art, economy, nature: threat of stasis and stagnation, eg. It is an elaborate solution: goes through every single step in the solution to the problem, beautiful and utopian way to deal with a very real problem, the problem that the sun is too strong.
