[Newspoetry] Newspoets neck and neck in heated utopia competition

[Ranjan Banerji]

Reminds me of a similar situation reported by that bastion of journalistic
integrity and gumption, The Onion:

Monk Gloats over Yoga Championship
"I am the serenest!" he says
http://www.theonion.com/onion2908/monkgloats.html

--Ranjan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: newspoetry-admin at lists.groogroo.com
> [mailto:newspoetry-admin at lists.groogroo.com]On Behalf Of gillespie
> william k
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 10:35 AM
> To: newspoetry at lists.groogroo.com
> Subject: [Newspoetry] Newspoets neck and neck in heated utopia
> competition
>
>
> The Swedish WORLD UTOPIA CHAMPIONSHIP is a heated match involving two
> rival newspoets. The one who designs the least competitive
> society will
> emerge victorious, having CLOBBERED her opponent.
>
> You can peruse the entries and vote ONLINE at:
>
> http://www.soc.nu/utopian/
>
> (Your vote automatically qualifies you to win a copy of Ernst
> Bloch's The
> Principle of Hope.)
>
> Seriously, though, a competition is a highly dubious framework for
> imaginative social reform, given that any desireable society will be
> constructed cooperatively by its many inhabitants. But, on
> the positive
> side, the competition and voting is open to the public, and I
> just don't
> know of that many Web-based utopia projects. Better a Utopia
> Competition
> than no Utopia at all.
>
> William
>
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