Utopia

Utopian natural pleasures and Illusory pleasures.

How does private property lead to illusory pleasures

and why are Utopian natural pleasures better?

Please explain.  Thank you.

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Really private property is a man made idea. There really is no such thing as private property in the natural world. Nature pays no heed to arbitrary lines drawn on a map. We have the illusion that we "own" land but this illusion only works when there are artificial man made laws to enforce them. One of the interesting features of dystopia fiction like Cormac McCarthy's The Road is that private property ceases to have meaning when man's artificial world no longer has meaning. Utopian pleasures usually lack the greed and exclusivity of illusionary man made pleasures.