Debunking myths to utopia

The Utopianists have to get better at responding to the knee-jerk reactions and unthinking defenses of the status quo by people who are not necessarily in favor of the current state of things, but who lack imagination. We have to do this because, well, things could really use changing, and that starts with the minds of these people.

Okay, so in my small effort to some sort of methodical response to these tired quips, I wanted to share something I've read by David Graeber from "Fragments of An Anarchist Anthropology (available online):

This of course brings up the “who
will do the dirty jobs?” question—one which
always gets thrown at anarchists or other utopians.
Peter Kropotkin long ago pointed out the fallacy
of the argument. There’s no particular reason dirty
jobs have to exist. If one divided up the unpleasant
tasks equally, that would mean all the world’s top
scientists and engineers would have to do them
too; one could expect the creation of self-cleaning
kitchens and coal-mining robots almost immediately.


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Now this is funny, as all responses to the knee-jerk rationalizations could be to show the irony of the statement!:):):)

Peace, World!