Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state if they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply. We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, "How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?"

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William Golding: "Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state if they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply. We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, "How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?""

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Anything	Apply	Approbation	Condemnation
Critique	Demonstration	Description	Exercises
Expostulation	Forget	Human	Imagination
Inspection	Live	Long	Must
Myself	Ourselves	Paraphernalia	Presented
Proposed	Simple	Social	Society
Staring	Stark	State	Suggest
Test	Treated	Trivial	Utopias
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Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state if they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply. We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, "How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?" - William Golding