Learning Objectives

  • Identify the difference between reality and what you think you know.
  • Explain why this book’s use of fiction makes it more awesome than pizza.
  • Define utopia and explain its relevance to the theme of this book.
  • Go back a page and pay attention to that part where I said there is a theme for this book, then get all annoyed when you realize I mention it again in the paragraph right after this call-out element.
  • Make a pretty chart or choreograph an interpretive dance showing what’s similar and what’s different about classical ideologies.
  • Define politics, as much as it can be defined.
  • Learn to nod sagely when you pretend that you understand what is and is not political science.