I think “nobody dies from hunger” is a very low bar for utopia. Classic comedy trope “character has obvious flaws but comically unaware of them” is very-hard in utopia, because in non-transhumanist utopia they have advanced psychology and reflection training and they read The Sequences in school and in transhumanist utopia you can just fine-tune your brain.
As of coming-of-age stories, “Catcher in the rye” defininetely would have troubles to be written in utopian setting. Most of classic coming-of-age stories are non-utopian bittersweet, to my taste.
I’m not telling that’s impossible, but it’s sure a challenge for writer.
I think “nobody dies from hunger” is a very low bar for utopia. Classic comedy trope “character has obvious flaws but comically unaware of them” is very-hard in utopia, because in non-transhumanist utopia they have advanced psychology and reflection training
and they read The Sequencesin school and in transhumanist utopia you can just fine-tune your brain.As of coming-of-age stories, “Catcher in the rye” defininetely would have troubles to be written in utopian setting. Most of classic coming-of-age stories are non-utopian bittersweet, to my taste.
I’m not telling that’s impossible, but it’s sure a challenge for writer.