Utopia

Utopia is a necessary part of human development.— G. Eiríksson, paraphrasing someone else.G. Eiríksson, 21. June, 2020. South Iceland. In a facebook comment to Lucas Dimevo.What is without suffering? That which is without politics. It is said that the ultimate goal of the bourgeoisie is the elimination of political struggle—a goal admirable to Marxists in theory, but not reciprocated by Marxists in practice. March 2, 2020. «The Pain Dimension: PArt 1» at https://paindimension.blogspot.com.Utopia 1551, from Modern Latin Utopia, literally "nowhere," coined by Thomas More (and used as title of his book, 1516, about an imaginary island enjoying the utmost perfection in legal, social, and political systems), from Greek ou "not" + topos "place" (see topos). The current (since c. 1960) explanation of Greek ou "not" is an odd one, as it derives the word from the PIE root *aiw- "vital force, life; long life, eternity." Linguists presume a pre-Greek phrase *(ne) hoiu (kwid) "(not on your) life," with ne "not" + *kwid, an "emphasizing particle" [Watkins]. The same pattern is found elsewhere.
compare with analogy:Jesus promises something like life in this world, but better. He begins with the life we all experience and uses it to explain something infinitely better – life eternal (zohn aiwnion, Mt 19:29, Jn 3:16). It’s not only something of the future, but something of the perpetual now.  We are asked to choose life (Deuteronomy 3:19) and told that life is central to Jesus’ ministry (Jn 10:10). [Lucas Mix, Astrobiologist. On his web log.]
== Rhizomata ==
* Ideal; Idea; Idealism; Heaven; New Man; Topos
* Error; Difference
* Place; Locus; Situation; Plane; Dimension
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