My critical Utopia

[zedness]

I got the Utopia I wrote back, and my tutor was very pleased with it, apparently. I thought I'd share it since apparently the idea I was trying to convey was successfully conveyed. Admittedly it worries me a little that (a) my tutor happily described it as containing "post-post-modern irony", (b) I understood exactly what he meant by saying that,

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[thedayisover]

fuck, i was going to go to bed
and now i'm going to have to read this.
lol @ 'Google Labs'

[thedayisover]

wow!!
it's really good! a great sketch of a society with its own internal disputes, assumptions, founding myths, etc.
seems a bit nanny state-esque, but i may be getting that impression because you were explicitly trying to provide voices/characters that said so - trying to pre-empt that criticism, as it were.

[zedness]

Utopias tend to be nanny-state-esque by their very nature. I was trying to veer away from that somewhat, although I don't know how well I succeeded.

Glad you liked it. :)