Transcript Perfect Worlds

What is a
Perfect World?
eight versions of
UTOPIA
Pastoral Peace
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Christopher Marlow
COME live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dale and field,
And all the craggy mountains yield.
There will we sit upon the rocks
And see the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
There will I make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.
A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull,
Fair linèd slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold.
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A belt of straw and ivy buds
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my Love.
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Thy silver dishes for thy meat
As precious as the gods do eat,
Shall on an ivory table be
Prepared each day for thee and me.
The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May-morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my Love.
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IKEA’s “Home, Sweet Home”
Martin Luther King’s dream:
social equality
"I Have A Dream"
… I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of
the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I
still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in
the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up
and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold
these truths to be self-evident: that all men are
created equal." I have a dream that one day on the
red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the
sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down
together at a table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of
Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat
of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into
an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that
my four children will one day live in a nation where
they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but
by the content of their character. I have a dream
today.
I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama,
whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the
words of interposition and nullification, will be
transformed into a situation where little black boys
and black girls will be able to join hands with little
white boys and white girls and walk together as
sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a
dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough
places will be made plain, and the crooked places will
be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be
revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be
exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low,
the rough places will be made plain, and the
crooked places will be made straight, and the glory
of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see
it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith with which I
return to the South. With this faith we will be able
to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of
hope. With this faith we will be able to transform
the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful
symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will
be able to work together, to pray together, to
struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up
for freedom together, knowing that we will be free
one day. (…)
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring
from every village and every hamlet, from every
state and every city, we will be able to speed up
that day when all of God's children, black men
and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants
and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing
in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at
last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free
at last!"
Tropical Paradise
John Lennon’s Imagination
Imagine
John Lennon
Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...
Imagine there's no countries,
It isn’t hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...
Imagine no possessions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I’m a dreamer,
but I’m not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.
Privilege and Opportunity
The Apostle John’s vision
Revelation 21 (NIV Bible)
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for
the first heaven and the first earth had passed
away, and there was no longer any sea.
2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming
down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride
beautifully dressed for her husband.
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And I heard a loud voice from the throne
saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with
men, and he will live with them. They will be
his people, and God himself will be with
them and be their God.
4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes.
There will be no more death or mourning or
crying or pain, for the old order of things has
passed away.”
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He who was seated on the throne said, “I
am making everything new!” Then he said,
“Write this down, for these words are
trustworthy and true.”
6 He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha
and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To
him who is thirsty I will give to drink without
cost from the spring of the water of life.
7 He who overcomes will inherit all this, and
I will be his God and he will be my son.
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Homer’s Heaven