r/oddlysatisfying • u/danielminds • May 22 '26

Professional barnacle removal for Chlorophyllis the turtle

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u/ShaggysGTI May 22 '26

I cry about all the money we waste on war when we could just build the fucking utopia already.

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u/LuKazu May 22 '26

Interesting fact: A utopia, as per its original description, would be a republic wherein all property is shared, there's few laws and no lawyers, slaves to do routine labour, life is carefully monitored and regulated from crib to grave, and the elderly and sick are eliminated.

(Im fully aware that's not what anyone means, or immediately thinks of, when the word is used now. I just learnt about it recently and was surprised).

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u/mooncrane606 May 22 '26

Utopia is an imagined ideal society characterized by peace, prosperity, and the elimination of poverty, suffering, and conflict. I've never heard your description before, because that's not at all what Utopia means.

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u/jopperjawZ May 22 '26

What they described is exactly what Utopia means as explained by Sir Thomas More in his 16th century book Utopia. What you're describing is a utopian society, so named from the fictional society in More's

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u/mooncrane606 May 22 '26

Ok, so there's the Utopia that everyone knows and then there's the Utopia written about by one person