I have a suspicion that people often dislike talking about utopias for fear of hope.
A personal example: when asking a few friends why they didn’t want to live forever, I got responses that seemed to indicate something like:
“I don’t want false hope. I’ve spent years trying to make peace with the fact that I’m going to die. I don’t even want to entertain the idea unless you have extraordinarily strong evidence it’s possible.”
I have a suspicion that people often dislike talking about utopias for fear of hope.
A personal example: when asking a few friends why they didn’t want to live forever, I got responses that seemed to indicate something like:
“I don’t want false hope. I’ve spent years trying to make peace with the fact that I’m going to die. I don’t even want to entertain the idea unless you have extraordinarily strong evidence it’s possible.”
I’d love to research this question.