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So, what is utopia good for? For walking

Quoted in Relationship Anarchy by Juan-Carlos Pérez-Cortés, loc 5910:

Eduardo Galeano recounted that he was once at a conference in Cartagena with Argentine filmmaker Fernando Birri, a good friend of his, and a student asked what utopia was good for. After a few seconds of silence, Birri replied, “What’s utopia good for? That’s a question I ask myself every day. I ask myself what utopia is good for, too. And I tend to think that utopia is on the horizon. So, if I go ten steps, utopia moves ten steps away, and if I go twenty steps, utopia is twenty steps farther away. As much as I walk, I’ll never, ever reach it. So, what is utopia good for? For just that, walking”.

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