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Utopianist

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U`to´pi`an`ist
n.1.An Utopian; an optimist.
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By 1945, in The Mind at the End of Its Tether, the former Utopianist was predicting the destruction of human civilization, in a tone comparable to that of Sigmund Freud's late, melancholy essays in The Future of an Illusion and Civilization and Its Discontents.
Humanism and its discontents: Joyce Carol Oates was presented with ... by Oates, Joyce Carol / The Humanist
Which is why an alleged utopianist like, say, Steve Jobs devotes himself to beautiful baubles, as if a Fabergé Egg for every consumer was the closest any of us could expect to the shining city on a hill.
I Am George Jetson by Mark Lotto / The New York Observer
Perowne's is the measured voice of liberal scepticism, measuring everything through an Enlightenment ideal of reason: Beware the utopianists, zealous men certain of the path to the ideal social order.
A day in the life of contemporary ideology: the reception of Ian ... by Cooper, Simon / Arena Magazine
 
 
 
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