From ancient times to the present, humans have longed for bliss: their ideals, dreams, utopias, Golden Ages, Eden, the Holy Land, Plato’s Republic, Shangri-La, Valhalla, Camelot, the American Dream, Brook Farm, Fruitlands, Intentional Communities, the New Deal, Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, the Green Encyclical, the Green New Deal and far more. For some comparison, Dr. Salima Ikram (author of Ancient Egypt: An Introduction) mentioned to me that for the ancient Egyptians, “The dream was having a fabulous eternal life. So that’s sort of sums it up for them I think.” Prof. Frank Korn (author of Hidden Rome) compares Rome and America thus: “The ‘Roman dream’ was not unlike the American one: A good education, high
