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Is Life Worth Living in a Perfect Utopia?

Published: May 21, 2020, 8:58 a.m.

John Varley's novel "Steel Beach" portrays a future brimming with attractive immortals living in amusement parks on the Moon--yet the main character contemplates suicide. Absent strife, can humans find purpose? Tim Sandefur joins Heaton to discuss John Varley, utopianism, and man's search for meaning.\xa0