And sometimes people would actually move from one of these societies to the other. What did they have in common? You say they were all in touch with each other. Rico Gagliano: You focus on five groups in your book. So, where better to do that than a place where nothing already exists? The sort of basic idea of all of these communities is inventing society from scratch, from the ground up. When Rico spoke to Chris this week, he noted that in Chris’ introduction, he says 19th century America was the perfect breeding ground for these communities because utopian thinkers saw it as a kind of blank slate.Ĭhris Jennings: A blank slate, exactly. His new book is called, “ Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism,” and it focuses on five of the hundreds of utopian experiments of that era. Specifically, a bunch of utopian communities that sprouted up in America in the 19th century. This week’s chattering class topic: Utopias.
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