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April 28, 2025 77 mins

Think YOU can do it better? In this episode, The Two Humans take a swing at creating a better world. The suggestion box is outside the entrance to the communal showers.

Episode 75: I’ll Topia if U-topia: Why It’s So Hard to Create a Perfect World.

An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans

Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.

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Backhouse, Fid and others

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Budds, Diana

2019 Inside Paraguay’s Failed Aryan ‘Utopia.’ Curbed, June 28, 2019, archive.curbed.com/2019/6/28/18744439/nueva-germania-failed-utopia.

 

Claeys, Gregory

2011 Searching for Utopia: The History of an Idea. Thames & Hudson, New York, NY. 

2017 Dystopia: A Natural History. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

 

Delano, Sterling F. 

2004 Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.  

 

Dobson, Jim

2023 How to Rule Your Own Country: Inside the Outrageous World of Micronations. Forbes, September 21, 2023, www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2023/09/21/how-to-rule-your-own-country-inside-the-outrageous-world-of-micronations/.

 

Douglas, Jennifer

2022 Failed Dreams of Building ‘New Australia’ Utopia in Australia in Paraguay Jungle in 19th Century. Australian Broadcasting Corporation News, November 26, 2022 www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-27/history-of-failed-attempt-to-build-new-australia-in-paraguay/101590946.

 

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Griffin, Sean

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Hesiod

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Kagan, Paul

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Kumar, Krishan

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More, Thomas

2003 Utopia (trans. Paul Turner). Penguin Books, New York, NY.

 

National Cambodian Heritage Museum and Killings Field Memorial

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National Park Service 

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Reed, Lawrence

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Sargent, Lyman Tower and Lucy Sargisson

2014 Sex in Utopia: Eutopian and Dystopian Sexual Relations. Utopian Studies, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2014), pp. 299-320. 

 

Savage, Rachel

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