The senior scholars of Social Credit on this list are quick to deny any suggestion that the policy aspiration at issue is utopian. These denials typically invoke an interpretation of Utopia that, although widespread, is distorted—a bit like the vulgar concept of Social Credit as the funny money party. It is true that twentieth century dictatorships have been linked to early promises of utopia and that “utopian” in common parlance often implies “hopelessly unrealistic”, but neither of these catches the original meaning of the word as a place that doesn’t (yet) exist.
This point is only worth making in the current context because the concept of Utopia as detailed by Thomas More has striking parallels to the description of Social Credit that has been presented to us here. >From what I have seen so far, I believe that More’s classic could serve as a very useful “laboratory” for Social Credit thought experiments and, beyond that, as an expository instrument. I have prepared a systematic presentation that lends itself to this perspective in http://cog.kent.edu/lib/WildeAdlerPartOne.htm and in http://cog.kent.edu/Author/Author.htm The second of these two sites will get you a list of authors. Scroll down and select Morgan, N.S. You will get a paper titled “Thomas More’s Utopia: Hail and Farewell”. I wrote an introduction for the article (translated from French) which relates the text to subject matter of the kind we are interested in. The author’s work was cited the handbook for major displays of Utopist literature and More’s legacy organized jointly by the National Library of Paris and the New York Public Library in 1999 or 2000. ===== Please address return mail to me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84IaC.bcVIgP.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html ==^================================================================
