We are More Than This

Imagine, two hundred years ago, saying you wanted to live in a country where all children could go to school and not work in factories, where slavery was abolished, women had the vote, where there was a health service for everyone and you got the weekend off. They would have called you crazy. It has been said by great modern minds that it is easier to envision the end of the world than it is the end of the current economic system. But what if we've been overlooking the saplings of a better system already growing up around us? Why don't we aim for the best society we can, no matter how far-fetched it might currently seem? In the five-hundredth anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia, Andrew Simms examines the evidence of the best that the world has had to offer society so far, and imagines a place in which these better ways have become the norm.