Liza Featherstone : Review of Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life by Kristen Ghodsee … people have been experimenting with alternatives to the individualist, patriarchal order for thousands of years, often successfully, and are doing so still … our inability to look beyond the nuclear family leaves us isolated, working hard all by ourselves at tasks that could be better shared by many adults … The ruling class does not want us to dream of a better life, or to realize that there are alternatives to the status quo … Read here …