kontra5 t1_iqugi05 wrote on October 3, 2022 at 4:20 AM

Reply to comment by Zaptruder in Utopia”: meaning ‘no place’; from Greek: οὐ (not’) and τόπος (‘place’) by Sphaerocypraea

> Bring a caveman into 21st century society and he'll think it's utopia for a while. > > Bring a 21st century man into Star Trek society and he'll think its utopia too... at least for a while

No way. That's what you wish they would think. It heavily depends on which location of particular time they'd get exposed to, and even then, more likely the strangeness would (out of fear of unknown and strange that's innate) leave impression of dystopia. In any case it's very relative on many factors some of which I mentioned. Sorry to say your comment was not very thought out.

Zaptruder t1_iquh6xa wrote on October 3, 2022 at 4:27 AM

Sorry you expected a pedantic multipage exceptions list out for an off the cuff example, when some charitable interpretation would suffice.

If you time travel and teleport into a battlefield in any era, yeah it's not going to leave a particularly positive impression.

But I shouldn't have to say any of that; assuming that the reader has the ability to understand reasonable context.

kontra5 t1_iquyq1k wrote on October 3, 2022 at 8:14 AM

I did not expect pedantry. There is quite a range in-between superficial and based on that (as I argued wrong) conclusion and pedantry. Feel free to let me know why you think one way or the other regarding, in this context of time travel, immersion into something significantly new, different (and weird and unknown) to result in first impression of utopia rather than the (again as I argued) likely opposite - dystopia.