The Open Conspiracy is a book published in 1928 by H.G. Wells. In 1930 a revised and expanded version was published, titled What are we to do with our Lives? This is one of Wells' essays in working towards a Utopian society. In it, he describes how everyone in the world could take part in an "Open Conspiracy" which would "adjust our dislocated world." Wells attempts to show how political, social, and religious differences could be reconciled, resulting in a more unified, inter-cooperating human race. 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... H. G. Wells at the door of his house at Sandgate Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946) was an English writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Utopia, in its most common and general meaning, refers to an imaginary perfect society, that has not exist (yet), or that can never exist because people are unable to reach perfection or endure tyranny forever. ...
Excerpt from What are we to do with our Lives?
"It seemed to me that all over the world intelligent people were waking up to the indignity and absurdity of being endangered, restrained, and impoverished, by a mere uncritical adhesion to traditional governments, traditional ideas of economic life, and traditional forms of behaviour, and that these awaking intelligent people must constitute first a protest and then a creative resistance to the inertia that was stifling and threatening us."
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The full text of What are we to do with our Lives? is in the public domain in Australia, and can be found at Project Gutenberg Australia [1] Please note that it is still under copyright in many countries.
The clear-minded Open Conspirator who has got his modern ideology, his lucidly arranged account of the universe in order, is obliged to believe that only by giving his life to the great processes of social reconstruction, and shaping his conduct with reference to that, can he do well with his life.
Its opening task must be the elaboration, exposition, and propaganda of this common idea, a steady campaign to revolutionize education and establish a modern ideology men's minds...
Open Conspirators will come into these associations to make a contribution very much as people come into limited liability companies, that is to say with a subscription and not with their whole capital.
A conspiracy is a secret plan, often with an ulterior motive, and known only by the "insiders".
People laugh at "conspiracy", and ridicule those who've had the foresight and invested their time and thought to study, and to show themselves approved of God.
Another conspiracy is the Fabian Society, whose aim is to spread Communism by stealth and counts among its members most of our post War Prime Ministers.
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