Opinion: The Burdens We Bear Trying To Return To Eden, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Awkwardly, both Eden, as a religious construct, and the socialist Elysium imagine all men similarly endowed. While it is then inevitable that both these versions of utopia would struggle with the multiplicity of outcomes that is the bane of every human society, I suppose this conceit comes from presuming each one of us created equal.
A return to Eden? Not quite. Instead, this is the fiction that socialists and communists have peddled since Marx tried to explain how extremes of need and material comfort could sit cheek by jowl in society, even as mankind grew richer; and ended up proffering the immiseration of the affluent as a solution.
…just as there would be in a community, persons more proficient in the use of the violin than others. And others better able to tell a story than most. There would also be those far more adept than the rest in making money. Put differently, man strives when it profits him so to do. Awkwardly, both Eden, as a religious construct, and the socialist Elysium imagine all men similarly endowed. While it is then inevitable that both these versions of utopia would struggle with the multiplicity of outcomes that is the bane of every human society, I suppose this conceit comes from presuming each one of us created equal. But just as there would be in a community, persons more proficient in the use of the violin than others.
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