The dream of the twentieth century was the construction of mass utopia
Evidence
Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (MIT Press)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: A historical period can itself function as a waking dream — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 21; Utopian urban plans fail without social psychological realism about people; Industrial capitalism’s workplace practices reshaped twentieth-century society to fit mass production. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1309