Viimasel ajal näikse olevat aktiviseerinud tegelased, kes hirmsasti tahavad ühiskonda mõne ilukirjandusliku teose laadis ümber kujundada. Kuna nende valik kipub olema üsna vägivaldne ja inimvaenulik, siis ma pakuks omalt poolt välja ühe alternatiivi.
Nimelt on Rabelais' Thélème klooster koht, kus tahaks isegi elada. Ja kui mitte ise elada, siis mõne seltsimehe Vanast Testamendist inspireerit märgadele unenägudele pakub see oluliselt inimlikuma ja lõbusama alternatiivi.
Siinkohal vabandan, et järgnev tsitaat on angliisi keeles: maakeelne Gargantua pole parajasti kättesaadav. Niisiis, kuidas nad oma elu seal kloostris siis korraldasid:
All their life was spent not in laws, statutes, or rules, but according to
their own free will and pleasure. They rose out of their beds when they
thought good; they did eat, drink, labour, sleep, when they had a mind to
it and were disposed for it. None did awake them, none did offer to
constrain them to eat, drink, nor to do any other thing; for so had
Gargantua established it. In all their rule and strictest tie of their
order there was but this one clause to be observed,
Do What Thou Wilt;
because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest
companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto
virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour.
Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought
under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition by which they
formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of
servitude wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable
with the nature of man to long after things forbidden and to desire what is
denied us.
Keda Thélème lähemalt huvitab, siis vastav osa Gargantuast on saadaval Gutenbergi projekti raames.