I don’t think Thomas More was 100% serious when he wrote his book about Utopia. In fact, he describes the book as “a truly golden little book, no less beneficial than entertaining”. And entertaining it is indeed. It’s funny that we’re still today using his word to describe a system we think is ideal, or even too good to be true. When reading More’s description with 21st century eyes, one might think that he’s actually describing a dystopia rather than a paradise.