Week 2 Utopia

More was able to create a world that sounds too good to be true. And in fact it is. The main reason why I think More was not able to convince me of his Utopia was the lack of a "back up plan" if you will. He writes about the people wanting to live plainly and not wanting anything lavish in life, but he does not explain what happens if some people were to decide they did not want to wear the same thing as everyone else, according to More they just dont. The citizens of Utopia just evolved like that over time.

Another thing that struck me while reading the story was the lack of emotional attachment of the citizens, espcecially to each other. More says that families have to be split up in order to have the correct ratio of people in the city and country. It is almost impossible to believe that people would willingly do this. More also writes that people sometimes have to colonize outside of Utopia and these citizens have no choice either, and not only are those citizens seperated form the their families but More openly states that the citizens living in colonies are not as respected or well treated as those living on the main island. There was one more example of this "family seperating" that I was a little confused with. More says that if a child does not want to do the same trade as his father than he is paired with another family and adopted into that family. But I am not sure if it is a literal adoption or just that the son does a sort of apprentenceship and becomes close with the family teaching him.