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Beyond Utopia: The Human Work of Becoming Whole
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 3 2026
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.07 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The future does not arrive as a stranger. It is assembled, day by day, from the habits we refuse to examine.
Beyond Utopia is a searching, humane invitation to look honestly at the patterns that keep repeating across human life: the hunger for power, the manufacture of enemies, the temptation to look away, the confusion of wealth with worth, and the quiet erosion of attention, memory, and neighborliness.
This is not a blueprint for a flawless world. It is a call to become the kind of people capable of building better ones.
Moving from the inner life to families, institutions, markets, politics, education, and the living world, Linda L Lewis asks a simple but demanding question: What must change in us if peace is ever to become more than a promise we repeat?
The answers offered here are neither partisan nor naïve. They begin with moral clarity, personal responsibility, and the practical work of restoring relationship. They ask us to measure prosperity by whether life is made more livable; to build institutions worthy of trust; to practice a politics that does not require a scapegoat; and to teach the capacities of peace before fear teaches its own lessons.
For readers who feel that the world is moving quickly but not always wisely, Beyond Utopia offers language for what is broken, courage for what is possible, and a place to begin. Change does not start somewhere else. It starts wherever a person decides that another human being is not a problem to be managed, but a life to be honored.Also from
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