start-over utopia theme

The (rather vague) notion of an idyllic world obtained by simply restarting the normal world from scratch whilst avoiding any unappealing aspects, for example sleaze, is put forth.

Examples

In tz1985e2x09b "Shelter Skelter", the survivalist specialist Harry dreamed of a chance to start society over without the impure sleaze and filth he saw everywhere around him.

5 total · 2 major · 3 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
movie: Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) major A grand revelation of the film was that the Umbrella Corporation had all along planned to wipe out all but a select few members of the human race, and then reboot civilization.
shortstory: The Last Man (1929) major M-1 (the last man) and Eve (the last woman) escaped from an atrophied, and gloomily mechanistic society with the goal of rebooting humanity.
tz1959e4x16 minor Benteen soliloquize of how he and his fellow colonists had left Earth with intentions building a new and better world.
tz1959e5x09 minor General Larrabee expressed his desire that Colonel Adam Cook start a new society free from hatred, and so Adam did with a woman named Eve on a remote planet called Earth.
tz1985e2x09b minor Harry was dreaming of a "pure" world without the filth he saw all around him.