Utopia — When Institutions Manufacture the Crimes They Punish
What if crime and poverty are not only individual failures, but recurring outcomes produced by institutional design?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Utopia by Sir Thomas More as an entry point, this investigation examines how property, scarcity, labor, punishment, political authority, and social status shape human behavior.
Raphael Hythloday’s criticism of European society connects enclosure and displacement to theft, begging, and severe punishment. Instead of treating these outcomes as isolated moral defects, More asks whether…
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