“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
― John Keats
Things that never were is the true name of utopia. Everything in our future derives from the people who can imagine that which does not exist. One great hero of the resistance of the nazi occupation in Greece, Manolis Glezos, said once in an interview when asked about utopia and peoples resistance: “What is utopia? Even the airplane was utopia before being constructed”
In our world full of troubles and inequality, social scientific and political innovation is needed if we are to surpass the environmental and social havoc that may lie ahead…
That is why this phrase of John Keats is so urgent. As much as in the past, we still, perhaps more than ever “need men who can dream of things that never were”
