But while Clinton was essentially a liberal realist, Obama, when he entered the White House, was a liberal utopian, a messianic figure who harbored dreams of moving beyond partisanship — or, at least, that was how his campaign portrayed him.
Although Kawasaki wasn't entirely swayed by the utopian propaganda, she figured that North Korea at least would offer her an escape from the discrimination and poverty facing ethnic Koreans in Japan after World War II.
This is the figure's utopian aspect: its uttermost unfolding, its extreme openness and unboundedness.
I hesitated at first, but eventually asked my friends, "How would you define a utopian world?" I became obsessed with figuring out a framework for defining a utopian world and a strategy to achieve this quickly.
Asked what kind of figure he would describe as "utopian", Eberl replied "€15m.
And yet this figure isn't stuck in final utopian lifelessness, as you might suspect.
Cultural historians will turn to the collection in an effort to shed greater light on this paradoxical figure who typified the acid-fueled, utopian indulgences of a far younger generation.
If rock has always been driven by two impulses, the utopian and the anarchic, many of its most enduring figures have straddled the two: Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young.
They want the comfort that only charismatic leadership can provide, the powerful father figure, the man of dreams, the anti-establishment utopian who promises greatness once again.
