Comments on: Making Utopia Real

By: Evan

Evan — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:20:18 +0000

Hi Phil, I think you’re right about the priorities and the reasons for them too. Thanks for your comment.

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:11:26 +0000

Hi Evan,

great post. Explanations of the words were superb and I really like the idea behind your article. If I should give the topics covered a priority I would say “Focussing on relationships” is a little bit more important than the “saving energy”. This is because if you have good relationships and can convince those relations to save energy is much easier than the other way round. Tagging it with numbers I would say 1.1 relationships and 1.2 saving energy.

By: Evan

Evan — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:39:48 +0000

Thanks, unfortunately the Greek letters don’t show. If you want to give the English names for the letters these will show. Thanks for your comment, much appreciated.

By: McLaughlin

McLaughlin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:02:02 +0000

The word comes from Greek: ??, “not”, and ?????, “place”. The homophone Eutopia, derived from the Greek ??, “good” or “well”, and ?????, “place”

Hope these Greek letters work on your site.

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:26:31 +0000

Hi Chris, I think politics has its place (and party politics is only a small part of public life) but it won’t bring us the life we need. People in the US put a lot more faith in their leaders than those of us in Australia do. So I wasn’t as surprised and disappointed that Obama is a politician too. I do think having a Black man in the White house is important – but he (or anyone else) just isn’t capable of making the needed changes from within that particular system. Public life certainly won’t help us with our relationships and emotional healing. Thanks for comment – they are always valuable.

By: Chris Edgar | Purpose Power Coaching

Chris Edgar | Purpose Power Coaching — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:46:05 +0000

Thanks for this Evan — I definitely agree with your observation that we can’t create a utopia by purely political means. Many people I know saw President Obama as a sort of messiah when he was elected, for instance, but of course life went on for them with all of their inner and outer conflicts afterward.

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:41:47 +0000

And I’d happily accept.

By: sarah luczaj

sarah luczaj — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:21:55 +0000

I’d happily invite you for a meal, Evan, but all those air miles