#looking backward

It was written in 1887 about a dude who gets hypnotized into suspended animation (yes) and wakes up in a far future socialist utopian paradise of...Boston in the year 2000.

It is so stupid.

Like 80% of it is the author explicating exactly how the economics and social organization of a socialist utopia would work.

There's a love story between the 1887 guy and a woman who turns out to be the great-granddaughter of his long-dead 1887 fiancé.

The economics and sociology are uhhhhhh questionable, but it takes certain problems of "what life will look like in a socialist utopia" more seriously and gives more interesting answers to them than anything else I've ever read.

It is deeply steeped in benevolent sexism.

It quietly implies that the socialist utopia will not have racism, but without ever addressing racial inequality directly. Presumably so he didn't get canceled for being a woke lib or whatever in 1887.

He is completely uninterested in how values, morals, religion, or manners might change over the course of 113 years and a socialist revolution.

(except that women will be less annoying, apparently)

I know — you were hoping this post would would be about THIS guy — — Martin Laurello, the man who could turn his head backwards, but there’s no need to be disappointed. You can still read all about him here, but then come on back please! Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) looked backwards too, but from the FUTURE. Which actually means he was looking FORWARD when he wrote his famous 1888 novel Looking…

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it does a way better job to sort out whatever is there to be sorted out; “it”, I mean without significant human interference

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I should be there, but I can’t wait. I can’t wait and this is what I am

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