John Gray muses on what his idea of heaven is....and why it shouldn't be a perfect world.
History teaches us that trying to create a perfect society leads to hell on earth, he writes.
"But dreams of a perfect world don't fail because human beings are incurably flawed. They fail because human beings are more complicated and interesting that their dreams of perfection".
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