It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after.

The utopias built by citizens like Anna Holshouser are not yet on that map. But they should be. [active during 1906 earthquake and fire in SF CA] 18

Utopia itself is rarely more than an ideal or an ephemeral pattern on which to shape the real possibilities before us. 135

The function of the state and of its structures in such a society are limited only to that which cannot be performed by anyone else. [Quoting Valclad Havel] 146

Tobin James Mueller: 'No one is turned away, my one rule. I never say no. That's one of the reasons it became a utopia.' 206

A comprehensive utopia may be out of reach, but the effort to realise it shapes the world for the better all the same. The belief may not be true, but it is useful. Belief makes the world.