Utopia book numero dos

and once again.. here I go..

The King seperated himself from the rest of the continent and is now has a perfect society.

Isolation doesn't always lead to perfection. Soon you can get lost and get in deeper trouble than you would otherwise.

They change husbands every year and they switch between country and city lives

They won't get stuck in something they don't like, but they will lose it if they like it.

They own no property and are allowed to go freely between houses. They shift houses Every ten years.

The makes everybody equal. Communism anyone?

30 Families choose a new magistrate every year. Those 200 magistrates choose a new prince who serves a life term.

This is a conglomeration of democracy and monarchy. I like it except the life term. Power corrupts.

Everybody knows everything about argriculture plus another trade. Everybody wears the same clothes except for small differences that distinguish married and unmarried and male and female.

This gets rid of everybody's creativity.

They work for 6 hours a day. 3 of them are dinner and the other 3 are after dinner. Supper is at 8. Then they sleep for 8 hours.

Doin the same thing everyday also gets rid of creativity.

No city may contain more than 6000 familes. Each family has to have between 10 and 16 people. Families with extra children will give them to a less fruitful family.

This is horrible. Families have to be broken up! Also, what happens when you run out of land to make new cities?

To visit another town, a person must obtain leave from the syphogrant and get a passport from the Prince. If person is caught twice without a passport, they are condemned to slavery.

I don't know what I think about this. It depends on how easy/hard it is to get a passport...

The chief pleasure to the body is health. It gives them desire to have them eat and drink and take part in other delights of staying healthy.

Makes sense. I like eating..

Utopia book numero uno

Here goes nothing...

1. Killing thieves does not work and is not good for the public.
1. Theft is not severe enough to be punished by death. The king need to make people not want to break the law in the first place
2. Having idle soldiers is a waste.
1. Resources could be spent on something else and having a large army increases crime.
3. The king needs to ban gabling and rebuild villages destroyed by it, as well as help rebuild agriculture in the areas.
1. I do not think he should outlaw gambling, but he needs to rebuild villages and help with agriculture
4. Thieves should be made into slaves for the person that catches them.
1. Having slaves in a free society causes problems for the whole freedom aspect.
5. The king should focus on improving what he has and not try expanding it.
1. The king should know what he has and should focus on make it better.
6. A perfect society is for all and not just for one.
1. A utopia applies to the whole society.

hope I did this right...


as a distraction...