A 2003 article for Rolling Stone commented; "Sly and the Family Stone created a musical utopia: an interracial group of men and women who blended funk, rock and positive vibes... Sly Stone ultimately discovered that his utopia had a ghetto, and he brilliantly tore the whole thing down on There's a Riot Goin' On, which does not refute the joy of his earlier music".
As the makers of Homeland, The Fall, The Americans and Utopia discovered, getting a second run can be a poisoned chalice.
But as had already been discovered in literary utopias, perfectibility breaks on the rock of dissent.
In many of Shaw's works, potential utopias are discovered, and must be defended from authoritarian regimes that seek to exploit them.
"It is almost about a utopia," Mr. Slimane said of the show, adding: "I discovered Los Angeles in the late '90s.
They discover that the Workers' Utopia is built on a Great Lie.And the capitalists count because they stand somewhat apart from the security establishment.
The city guardians look to the Utopian university-state of New Oxford for advice but when one of an Oxford delegation is murdered Dalrymple heads south to discover that beneath every Utopia a dystopia lurks.
The citizens of this utopia are actually being drugged, constantly observed and the glorious culture only works, it's discovered, due to a complex system of cruel eugenics and euthanasia.
We've discovered that hookup culture isn't the cause for concern that some once felt it was, but neither is it the utopia that others hoped.
Stoppard's epic trilogy The Coast of Utopia (2002), while containing passages of breathtaking beauty and definitely worthy of revival, also suffered from his determination to include everything he'd discovered about Russia's liberal-minded 19th-century emigres.
If the society is a false utopia, the hero discovers the lie at its very foundation: the Pretties are lobotomized when they receive their plastic surgery; the residents of Jonas's community have been drained of all passion.
