Planned social systems produce lives that are intolerably dull.

Evidence

It must be admitted, however, that life in More’s Utopia, as in most others, would be intolerably dull. Diversity is essential to happiness, and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect of all planned social systems, actual as well as imaginary. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1928

Categorization

• XREF: XREF connects to critiques of utopian literature and totalitarian planning. — connects to: Utopian urban plans fail without social psychological realism about people; Social dislocation makes societies seem formless and incapable of resisting imposed designs. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 330
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1928

Broader Connections

• Utopian urban plans fail without social psychological realism about people #corroborates (0.82)