Enter Dr. Haber (Eric Oleson) who has created a device, complete with a silly-looking Jetsons helmet, to influence dreams and sees George as an opportunity to harness power for utopian ends.
"There were lots of opportunities to play with the utopian desires around VR.
And yes, we are in depression, but that offers the American government the opportunity to once-and-for-all fix our utopian faith in the free market by simultaneously raising taxes and cutting spending.
"It's utopian, and it's wrong-headed, and it's rich with opportunity for power exploitation," he said.
There is something utopian, and appealing, about the potential for cryptocurrency to provide an opportunity for more equitable wealth distribution.
"Ultimately, these women believe that joining ISIS in Syria will secure their place in paradise, give them the opportunity to take part in the construction of a utopian society, while also providing those sensations of adventure, belonging and sisterhood.
The founding of new towns and the construction of large monasteries in Mexico provided an opportunity for enlightened European settlers to realize some of the utopian ideals of Renaissance planning.
"That sounds utopian, but if you mix that love with concrete, real services and opportunities, then you can actually solve a big problem".
Wheeler finds Trollope to have a "voice that sings" from the pages of the often peppery "Domestic Manners," and she relishes the opportunity to detail her subject's extravagant failures, first in joining a short-lived utopian community in Tennessee, then in constructing an elaborate limestone edifice in frontier Cincinnati modeled after England's thriving urban exhibition halls.
As far back as the early 1920s, there developed an awareness among many social critics that the extension of the vote and of enlarged purchasing power to more and more of the ignorant or ill-educated meant larger and larger opportunities for both demagogic and public-spirited propagandists to make headway by using fictions and myths, utopian appeals, and "the noble lie".
