doom and gloom

This morning the Governor of the Bank of England said we could look forward to ten sober years;

their are going to be half a million job losses in the public sector and at the same time those of us who do work will have to work longer before we collect our pensions. How will news like this shape peoples view of utopia or their need to dream of one. In theory this should be the right time for collective thinking on utopia, as it was in other times of depression