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Is Life Worth Living in a Perfect Utopia?

Is Life Worth Living in a Perfect Utopia?

Alienating the Audience

May 21, 20201h 4m

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Show Notes

John Varley's novel "Steel Beach" portrays a future brimming with attractive immortals living in amusement parks on the Moon--yet the main character contemplates suicide. Absent strife, can humans find purpose? Tim Sandefur joins Heaton to discuss John Varley, utopianism, and man's search for meaning.