This is the classic idea of a people's commonwealth. Although it has become a byword for the unrealistic since publication in 1516, this extract demonstrates a far more real and practical side to More's vision.
Wit, satire, irony— such a powerful force. Of course it’s contradictory; of course the utopia also qualifies as dystopia. It dares to think differently, and speaks truth to power in the days when, if More did it directly instead of sideways through satire, such a thing would land him in the Tower. (He landed there anyway.)
A brilliant read for the history and hypocrisy contained in that time and place, and also our own.
(I might be in the minority, but book 1 > book 2.)
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