utopianism

[yoo-toh-pee-uh-niz-uhm]

noun

(sometimes initial capital letter)

1. the views or habit of mind of a utopian; impracticable schemes of political or social reform.

Other Word Forms

• utopianist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of utopianism¹

First recorded in 1655–65; utopian + -ism

Example Sentences

In 1995, British theorists Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron noticed a seemingly paradoxical blend of hyper-capitalist striving and hippie utopianism that had cropped up along the West Coast of the United States, particularly in Silicon Valley and San Francisco.

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"The leading figures in the psychedelic renaissance have all fallen prey to a very simplistic utopianism."

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Evans says what this has led to is a kind of simplistic spiritual utopianism evangelized by many leaders of the modern psychedelic renaissance.

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“There's a seriously simplistic utopianism at the highest levels of the psychedelic industry,” Evans told Salon in an interview.

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“Like Rick Doblin seriously saying that psychedelics would lead to net zero trauma by 2070. Michael Pollan, seriously believing that psychedelics are crucial to save the human race. That's how he ended his Netflix series. The leading figures in the psychedelic renaissance have all fallen prey to a very simplistic utopianism.”

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