-Dystopia: literally "nowhere" coined by Thomas More
-Foreword was interesting because the essay was made to make us really think about the time it was written and how similar it is right now.
-Writing about imagination is some point not a bad place.
-Chapter 1 has no sympathy
-Restatement is important in Chapter 1
-Influence of science at the beginning
-Tone: cold & detached & boring & like textbook written
-The feeling of the first chapter is to get us to keep reading because it was boring
-Reification: every culture does this, ex-love & god
-Maturity in the book is weird, children are playing sex games?!
-Maturity comes with age and then maturity is forced upon them.
-Took away personal feelings, factory made, proto types, creating "people" that are more disireable.
-Specific set of rules
-Vision of Utopia is all up to you
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