What’s The Difference Between Utopia, Eutopia, and Protopia?
Why Modern Utopia Fails — But Metamodern Protopia Might Not
Eutopia? Protopia? Everyone seems to be using these terms nowadays, but what do they actually mean? What’s the difference between these new ones and good old utopia? And are they just buzzwords?
If you want to know the difference and discover what’s behind the hype, and if you want to know how we may finally manage to venture beyond the modern mirage of utopia, this Hanzi article is for you.
Intro: Utopia, Eutopia, and Protopia
Is it appropriate to be a Utopian these days?
Yes and no. Or rather, we may need a term that gathers bold dreamers, thinkers, and doers into an energized force for the necessary and timely transformation of societies around the world — but still avoids the pitfalls of 20th-century utopianism.
What, then, can be “better than Utopia?” It turns out that vast landscapes do indeed open up to us if we allow ourselves to ask that question.
Let us journey beyond Utopia.
Our first stop on this journey of the mind we can call Eutopia. But the journey continues farther afield — into what we may call Protopia. And strangely enough…
