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Comment author: [deleted] 11 January 2012 06:53:49PM *  1 point [-]

It would probably sound like Utopia to him, and even more so to a peasant of the time. Current western civilization looks a lot like Utopia Gone Right to me, at least compared to the wide majority of human history.

This too shall pass.

Edit: Am I being down voted for my pessimism?

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