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‘The Moon on a Stick’ This phrase was a favourite of one of the teachers at our children’s primary school. At home, we’d never heard of it, and found it really funny. But here is William Blake’s cartoon, drawn in the 18th century, and named ‘I want! I want!’ The tiny person on Earth is trying to catch the moon on a stick! Our longing for a perfect Planet  ‘Dystopia, noun: an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. The opposite of utopia .’ Underneath this dictionary definition come some quotes illustrating the use of the word, and under that, there was a space for comments. One of the comments reads something like ‘ the state this world is in’.   The state this world has always been in, more or less. With the development of communication technology, it can’t be ignored. Technology, the hope of decreasing suffering and improving lives, the yearning for utopia, has produ...