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Anti-utopianism Continues To Suffuse Our Culture...today Few Imagine That Society Can Be Fundamentally Improved, And Those Who Do Are Seen As At Best Deluded, At Worst Threatening.

If We Could Let Go Of Our Faith In Money, Who Knows What We Might Put In Its Place?

The Mystical Nature Of American Consumption Accounts For Its Joylessness. We Spend A Great Deal Of Time In Stores, But If We Don't Seem To Take Much Pleasure In Our Buying, It's Because We're Engaged In The Acts Of Sacrifice And Self-definition. Abashed In The Presence Of Expensive Merchandise, We Recognize Ourselves . . . As Suppliants Admitted To A Shrine.

The Gentlemen Who Wrote The Constitution Were As Suspicious Of Efficient Government As They Were Wary Of Democracy, A "turbulence And A Folly" That Was Associated With The Unruly Ignorance Of An Urban Mob.

It Is The Fear Of Death - 24/7 In Every Shade Of Hospital White And Doomsday Black--that Sells The Pharmaceutical, Political, Financial, Film, And Food Product Promising To Make Good The Wish To Live Forever.