bystander wrote:
Being from Oklahoma, I've been to Nowhere, or at least as close to it as anyone would want to be.
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Bridge to Nowhere
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/utopian
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<<*UTOPIA* is a name for an ideal society, taken from the title of a
book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More describing a fictional island
in the Atlantic Ocean, possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-
legal system. The term has been used to describe both intentional
communities that attempted to create an ideal society, and fictional
societies portrayed in literature. "*UTOPIA*" is sometimes used
pejoratively, in reference to an unrealistic ideal that is impossible
to achieve, and has spawned other concepts, most prominently dystopia.
.
The word comes from Greek: οὐ, "not", and τόπος, "place", indicating
that More was utilizing the concept as allegory and did not consider
such an ideal place to be realistically possible. It is worth noting
that the homophone *EUTOPIA*, derived from the Greek εὖ, "good" or
"well", and τόπος, "place", signifies a double meaning that was almost
certainly intended. Despite this, most modern usage of the term
"*UTOPIA*" assumes the latter meaning, that of a place of perfection
rather than nonexistence.
.
More's *UTOPIA* is largely based on Plato's Republic. It is a perfect
version of Republic wherein the beauties of society reign (eg:
equality and a general pacifist attitude), although its citizens are
all ready to fight if need be. The evils of society, eg: poverty and
misery, are all removed. It has few laws, no lawyers and rarely sends
its citizens to war, but hires mercenaries from among its war-prone
neighbors (these mercenaries were deliberately sent into dangerous
situations in the hope that the more warlike populations of all
surrounding countries will be weeded out, leaving peaceful peoples).
The society encourages tolerance of all religions. Some readers have
chosen to accept this imaginary society as the realistic blueprint for
a working nation, while others have postulated More intended nothing
of the sort. Some maintain the position that More's *UTOPIA* functions
only on the level of a satire, a work intended to reveal more about
the England of his time than about an idealistic society. This
interpretation is bolstered by the title of the book and nation, and
its apparent equivocation between the Greek for "no place" and "good
place": "*UTOPIA*" is a compound of the syllable ou-, meaning "no",
and topos, meaning place. But the homonymous prefix eu-, meaning
"good," also resonates in the word, with the implication that the
perfectly "good place" is really "no place.">>
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[quote="bystander"][quote="emc"]… BHF can’t go nowhere or turn into nothing because except for [url=http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=&daddr=Nowhere,+Uninc+Caddo+County,+Caddo,+Oklahoma,+United+States&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=35.162266,-98.443208&sspn=0.013578,0.0109&ie=UTF8&ll=35.257394,-98.460159&spn=0.216987,0.174408&z=11&iwloc=ddw1]Nowhere, Uninc Caddo County, Oklahoma, USA[/url], “nowhere” is not a place and nothing is only in my mind...[/quote]
Being from Oklahoma, I've been to Nowhere, or at least as close to it as anyone would want to be.[/quote]
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Bridge to Nowhere
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/utopian
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<<*UTOPIA* is a name for an ideal society, taken from the title of a
book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More describing a fictional island
in the Atlantic Ocean, possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-
legal system. The term has been used to describe both intentional
communities that attempted to create an ideal society, and fictional
societies portrayed in literature. "*UTOPIA*" is sometimes used
pejoratively, in reference to an unrealistic ideal that is impossible
to achieve, and has spawned other concepts, most prominently dystopia.
.
The word comes from Greek: οὐ, "not", and τόπος, "place", indicating
that More was utilizing the concept as allegory and did not consider
such an ideal place to be realistically possible. It is worth noting
that the homophone *EUTOPIA*, derived from the Greek εὖ, "good" or
"well", and τόπος, "place", signifies a double meaning that was almost
certainly intended. Despite this, most modern usage of the term
"*UTOPIA*" assumes the latter meaning, that of a place of perfection
rather than nonexistence.
.
More's *UTOPIA* is largely based on Plato's Republic. It is a perfect
version of Republic wherein the beauties of society reign (eg:
equality and a general pacifist attitude), although its citizens are
all ready to fight if need be. The evils of society, eg: poverty and
misery, are all removed. It has few laws, no lawyers and rarely sends
its citizens to war, but hires mercenaries from among its war-prone
neighbors (these mercenaries were deliberately sent into dangerous
situations in the hope that the more warlike populations of all
surrounding countries will be weeded out, leaving peaceful peoples).
The society encourages tolerance of all religions. Some readers have
chosen to accept this imaginary society as the realistic blueprint for
a working nation, while others have postulated More intended nothing
of the sort. Some maintain the position that More's *UTOPIA* functions
only on the level of a satire, a work intended to reveal more about
the England of his time than about an idealistic society. This
interpretation is bolstered by the title of the book and nation, and
its apparent equivocation between the Greek for "no place" and "good
place": "*UTOPIA*" is a compound of the syllable ou-, meaning "no",
and topos, meaning place. But the homonymous prefix eu-, meaning
"good," also resonates in the word, with the implication that the
perfectly "good place" is really "no place.">>
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