Great Books Ep 104. Aristophanes - The Ecclesiazusae. The Constant Yearning for Utopia

Idealistic systems fail in so many different ways because of the unpredictability of human nature. Still, people yearn for communal systems were everything is shared and everyone is equal.

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“all shall be equal, and equally share All wealth and enjoyments, nor longer endure That one should be rich, and another be poor, That one should have acres, far-stretching and wide, And another not even enough to provide Himself with a grave”

~ ‘The Ecclesiazusae’ by Aristophanes (Benjamin B. Rogers translation. GB5 - p. 621)

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