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Speaking of reclamation:
There is another Utopia-burning,
every time an initiative
or idea is dismissed
as "utopian"... not
only does whatever
the idea was turn
to ash, but the dignity
and legitimacy of
Dreamland are ritually
immolated.
Utopia,
and its citizens,
are the fantasy life
of the progressive,
of the curious, of
anybody who suspects
or knows from experience
that Freud's three
stages of development
are a pretty primitive
account of "growing
up". Aren't you glad
he never claimed to
be putting forward
a theory of human
development?

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