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now today's video derived from greek utopia means no place as in a place that couldn't exist but so
desperate of humans been throughout history that even impossible dreams are believed hence most
of the following mad visions were thought to be real in their day or at least within our reach
number 10. the peach blossom spring at least eight tourist traps in china claim to be the
peach blossom spring but in truth or myth only one man appears to have been there
exploring an uncharted river through a forest of peach trees a fisherman found a hole in a
mountain since it was emanating daylight he tied up his boat and squeezed through on the other
side was an open fertile land of bamboo groves and mulberry trees with clear shimmering pools
the people farmers were all strangely blonde and dressed in old-fashioned clothes even by
4th century standards although surprised to see the fishermen they were urgently curious too
plying him with chicken and wine they asked him about the world outside their own their ancestors
he learned had taken refuge in this land from the sweeping reforms of the chin five centuries or so
earlier they had been without contact ever since but as the fishermen answered their questions they
realized they had a misdoubt china sounded worse off than ever eventually he left the peach blossom
spring leaving markers along the way arriving home he shared his tail and arranged for a proper
expedition but just as the natives had warned him he never found his way back there number
9. atarakuru mentioned in sanskrit and pali texts as early as 1000 bc tarakuru is entirely free of
corruption there's no agriculture no conflict no harm to the creatures that live here furthermore
the year-round temperature climate ensures that the trees always have fruit flowers and
somehow even milk the inhabitants live for thousands of years and while away their time
playing music men and women are equal in freedom and there aren't any rulers to speak of according
to the mahabharata uttarakuro is a land of the celestials angels descending from heaven in fact
mortals can't even get through the gates but if they somehow did get in their corrupt mortal eyes
would see nothing number 8. hyperbaria hyperborea means beyond the north wind however it refers not
to a dark and frosty polar region but to a land of eternal spring this is because hyperbaria
lays behind boris god of the north wind and winter as he blows his cold gusts south it's
also beyond the reach of nyx the goddess of the night so the sun here is always shining above all
hyperbaria is a land of peace nestled between the ripping mountains and the river oceanis there's
very little chance of invasion something many ancient greeks must have longed for disease
is also unheard of hyperboreans are strong their kings 10 feet tall are descendants of barrios and
the snow nymph chion and if not when hyperbarians age they transform into swans on a lake number 7.
lotusland the island of the lotus eaters or lotusland in tennyson's poem was among the
first stops that odysseus made driven there by a nine-day storm his ships needed food and
fresh water but what he found there was far more enticing arriving on the beach he sent
three men to scout out the natives and when they failed to return odysseus led a party himself he
expected a fight but as it turned out the scouts hadn't been attacked they'd been welcomed and fed
by the natives the food was just a little too good like opium the fruit of the island's lotus trees
not to be confused with the flower a different plant was so rapturously narcotic that the men
lost interest in home most weary seemed the sea weary the oar muse tennyson they longed only to
stay on the island with its dreamy smoke-like streams and lotus dust born on the breeze
although merely a blissful delusion lotusland was real for the dreamers in the end odysseus dragged
his men back onto the ships and put out to sea once again number six the big rock candy mountains
in the big rock candy mountains there's a land that's fair and bright where the handouts grow
on bushes and you sleep out every night harry mack mcclintock 1928. there's never any wind or
rain the trees are full of fruit the birds are always singing and you never change your socks
it is in other words a paradise for hobos utopia as imagined by tramps a land of cigarette trees
alcohol springs a lake of stew and of whiskey too you can paddle around them in a big canoe
and hens laying soft boiled eggs although there's apparently a police force here the cops are
figures of fun cursed with wooden legs blindness and rubber-toothed bulldogs they pose no threat
to the hobos in any case the jails are made of tin so you can just walk right out again
as soon as you are in there's actually a dystopian counterpart to the big rock candy mountains the
all-go-hungry hash house where the bread's too tough to cut with a sword the donuts are made
of wood and the sausages bark when touched but the ballad on which mcclintock based his was
dark enough on its own in the original ditty the big rock candy mountains were a tall tale
to lure kids for abuse 5. the moon in serano de bergerac's leotremond published posthumously in
1657 the eponymous narrator flies to the moon by a rocket-powered flying machine the inhabitants he
finds enjoy all the usual utopian tropes eternal spring peace love and immortality or in this case
aging backwards they also have rifles that not only kill but cook whatever you shoot moon speech
is basically wordless the lower class talk by moving their bodies while the upper class use
musical tones either by mouth or when they disdain to prostitute their throats to that orifice
by some kind of musical instrument this would have been familiar to readers of francis godwin's
earlier the man in the moon also published posthumously in 1638 whose protagonist serrano
even meets perhaps the first ever sci-fi crossover however in godwin's tale the moon seems far less
utopian at least for all but the rich not only do the commoners live shorter lives they're also
cruelly exploited peace is maintained artificially rebellious children are simply swapped with
better behaved children from earth we also learn from the man in the moon that the seas are in fact
islands the whiter more reflective parts of the ocean also the inhabitants of tall nocturnal
christian people are of a hue found nowhere on earth the result of living by earth light number
four armeria in feminist utopian visions men are put back in their place paisan's seed dom is
ruled by the virgin mary gilman's herland by pathogenic women and corbett's new amazonia by
25th century bioengineered superwomen but there is an alternative to get rid of gender entirely
this was the thinking behind victorian transgender lawyer irene clyde's post-gender paradise armeria
at first glance hymeria isn't too crazy it actually looks pretty good there are no
gendered pronouns names or roles husband wife etc married couples conjugates are
equal everyone lives in a palace and nobody eats any animals as they haven't for a thousand years
they do however keep slaves whose only right to self-determination is the right to apply to
change household this utopian vision also falls down when it comes to the question of children
since armerian couples can't have their own they buy them from a tribe of barbarians in other words
in terms of exploitation armeria wasn't exactly worlds apart from the empire back in clyde's day
it was just a more gender-neutral one number 3. islands of the sun another ancient greek utopia
the islands of the sun are an archipelago of seven circular land masses each five thousand states
that's one thousand kilometers in circumference they're somewhere on the equator south of ethiopia
the natives are a scholarly sort engaged in every field of study but mainly astrology the seven
islands actually correspond to the five planets of classical astrology along with the sun and
the moon their alphabet likewise has only seven characters but each has four different sounds
and thanks to a double tongue they can speak any language on earth including those birds they can
also hold two conversations at once speaking separately with each of their tongues they're
actually born with a forked tongue but they split it right down to the root strong and gentle these
six foot plus islanders have bones that can flex and aside from the head they are hairless disease
is rare and decreptitude is unheard of at the age of 150 they voluntarily commit suicide by laying
on a plant that lulls them to sleep and kills them if they do get injured in the course of their life
though there's an animal on the island that can help similar to a tortoise but with numerous feet
and two intersecting yellow lines on its back as well as four eyes and four mouths one of each
at the ends of each line its blood is like glue for severed limbs number two cocaine
the island of cocaine was dreamt up by serfs by the end of the middle ages it was known throughout
europe if not by its french name then but by the german schlefenland or sluggard's land the dutch
lululand maybe lazy luscious land or the english lubberland understandably for medieval peasants
whose laborers filled the bellies of lords free food was cocaine's main appeal the streets are
paved with pastry horses constructed with cake roast hogs loiter with knives in their backs and
roast geese fly into the mouth all amid rivers of wine aside from food cocaine's are blessed
with eternal youth and beauty free love and a carefree peaceful existence in fact idleness here
is a virtue the longer you sleep the more you get paid but good luck spending your money the shops
in cocaine are all free number one harmonian earth french utopianist charles fourier was
influential beyond his own time in fact his is the only mad vision on this list to have actually
been tried out albeit on a very small scale in a nutshell he believed our capitalist civilization
had isolated earth from the cosmos the aura borealis he claimed was a sign of our dying planet
sickness while other celestial bodies their stars and planets were blissfully copulating erotically
attracted to each other's aromal rays ours was in a state of disharmony at the heart of fourier's
program for humanity was a realignment with this attractive force at a personal level this meant
harmonizing with all our own natural instincts from work to sex and marriage instead of laboring
away at a job we hate we'd cycle through many we love he suggested 30 different tasks every day
minimum to facilitate this would all be rehoused in philanthropies vast communes set on sprawling
purpose-built country estates each holding 1 620. why this number well that's because
fourier believed there were 810 personality types and wanted one of each sex in each fallen story
every citizen's attractive labor would serve their own natural urges as well as the
fallen story as a whole sexuality would also be unleashed not least by abolishing monogamy once
humankind had harmonized in this way earth would swiftly follow suit its own attractive force or
aroma rays shooting out to make love to the stars that's not all nature itself would be altered
aggressive creatures like lions and sharks would soon die out to be replaced by their
gentler opposites anti-lions and anti-sharks meanwhile the mingling of boreal citric acid from
the poles with our planet's oceans would render seawater drinkable it would fourier suggested
tastes like lemonade so i really hope you found this video interesting if you did please do hit
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