tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post170811258346305197..comments2024-03-24T02:21:53.258-07:00Comments on william morris unbound: Disappointment in UtopiaTony Pinkneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-13246273557391381232009-06-04T04:39:04.114-07:002009-06-04T04:39:04.114-07:00In the Israeli kibbutzim of the 50s, observers wer...In the Israeli kibbutzim of the 50s, observers were intrigued to note that children were raised collectively on the grounds that the private bourgeois family was reactionary or contrary to the type of society the Zionists, many of whom were left-wing, were building. Twenty years later, this Utopian scheme had been abandoned. Children were now with their natural parents. This illustrates one of the limitations of Utopia: human nature.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-28620532130235912942009-06-03T03:21:06.430-07:002009-06-03T03:21:06.430-07:00Dear Ian, Thanks for the eagle-eyed proof-reading!...Dear Ian, Thanks for the eagle-eyed proof-reading! I have now corrected this. It's probably the fact that my son is a PhD Physics student (due, I like to think, to all the 'Star Trek' viewing we did together when he was little), that sent my mind off down the wrong track ...Tony Pinkneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-55879502838459371672009-06-02T12:48:27.247-07:002009-06-02T12:48:27.247-07:00Not so much a comment - rather a puzzle. I was pu...Not so much a comment - rather a puzzle. I was puzzled by "Einsteinian montage" (speeds of light? railway carriages?) but then reading again an hour later realized that "Eisenteinian montage" was probably meant (steps, prams).ianmac55https://www.blogger.com/profile/02082002867930846104noreply@blogger.com