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Decypher this paragraph for me please In most discussions of this subject, utopian thinking has simply been equated with having a utopia, whether of the first or second kind. Clearly, this is inadequate, for if we take utopia as meaning an ideal that exists nowhere but could, then anyone who thinks society can be improved and has some idea of what that would look like (and who does not?) can be labeled a utopian, and we've learned nothing worthwhile about any of them. But if we understand utopia as an impossible ideal--besides begging the question of what is possible--this only gives us the main result of utopian thinking; it doesn't tell us anything about the process that led to it. As a criterion for determining what is and isn't utopian,