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04/13/2008: "Utopianism will kill us all"

John Gray, a political scientist and philosopher at the London School of Economics, spent the 1980s as a Thatcherite and most of the 1990s as a supporter of Tony Blair and the British New Left. Now, he's stopped taking sides and believes that all of modern politics adds up to a delusional and impossible utopian enterprise that will end not just in failure but in a global-scale tragedy.

He specifically rails against the notion that history is the story of progress toward a better tomorrow.

[ Most sane thinkers, including Plato and Nietzsche, have railed against the pretense of progress. There is only reality, and smart adaptations to it; "progress" is a moral notion, a mental drug designed to convince the bearer that they are superior to others. It is the downfall of the West. ]


http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/10/utopia-politics-gray-oped-utopia08-cx_mm_0410gr ay.html