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>>40751160
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans
>It's a place built out of dreams and starlight; the name "Utopia" is a somewhat poignant pun by its author, blending the Greek words for "Good Place" (eutopia) and "No Place" (outopia), and despite (or perhaps because of) its unattainable nature, it has endured in myth and dreams since.
>They will plan to 'Take Over the World,' use 'the heart of an orphan' or an 'Artifact of Doom,' steal the 'Cosmic Keystone,' commit 'mass brainwashing,' 'sell themselves to higher powers' or unleash the 'Apocalypse' so that they can destroy all resistance and usher in their own ideals for Utopia. They will operate under the assumption that this wonderful new world has them at the top, free to exert a benevolent or iron-fisted regime as they will.
>Curiously, the first example of a Utopia in recorded literature — Plato's The Republic — is an example of this trope (possibly) played absolutely straight and not as means for the opposite 'Aesop.' Plato argues that the establishment and survival of the perfect state requires autocratic rule by 'philosopher-kings' bred from a system of 'eugenics' and there should be a "noble lie" that the citizens must be taught to induce them to love the state unconditionally.
>>40751160
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans
>It's a place built out of dreams and starlight; the name "Utopia" is a somewhat poignant pun by its author, blending the Greek words for "Good Place" (eutopia) and "No Place" (outopia), and despite (or perhaps because of) its unattainable nature, it has endured in myth and dreams since.
>They will plan to 'Take Over the World,' use 'the heart of an orphan' or an 'Artifact of Doom,' steal the 'Cosmic Keystone,' commit 'mass brainwashing,' 'sell themselves to higher powers' or unleash the 'Apocalypse' so that they can destroy all resistance and usher in their own ideals for Utopia. They will operate under the assumption that this wonderful new world has them at the top, free to exert a benevolent or iron-fisted regime as they will.
>Curiously, the first example of a Utopia in recorded literature — Plato's The Republic — is an example of this trope (possibly) played absolutely straight and not as means for the opposite 'Aesop.' Plato argues that the establishment and survival of the perfect state requires autocratic rule by 'philosopher-kings' bred from a system of 'eugenics' and there should be a "noble lie" that the citizens must be taught to induce them to love the state unconditionally.
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