Sunday, January 11, 2009
utopia
During lunch we got into a small conversation about a utopic society and a friend of mine said that creating such a society is impossible. At first it didn’t really bother me, I didn’t agree with it but I just thought of it as an opposing statement nothing more. Later that day though my dad and I had a conversation about communism and he also said that having a perfect society is impossible which is when I finally noticed. People have lost faith in others and in turn themselves. I understand that a utopic society is far fetched but in our age you see objects transporting people in the sky and screens that display images of information around the globe. Its okay for people to think we can better our technology, our education, our medical system, but why not ourselves as a whole. Losing hope in ourselves is pathetic, with out hope in the goodness of man why live on this earth, why go to school or make friends. I believe there can be a perfect society because the word perfect can never be defined. The trick is not bending your society to be perfect for everyone, it’s everyone bending there thought on perfect to fit our society.
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3 comments:
cute .
I agree... this society has built this sense of unattainable perfection, and that is why we think that utopia is impossible. Perfection is not impossible, but our society's schema of it is. We automatically think that those who work lower class jobs are unhappy. We assume that because lower wages is not wanted. But seriously, those who do are working for their children, and that alone serves as happiness, knowing that a better life is out there in the future. It seems like people only associate happiness with money.
Maybe that is why a utopia world is unattainable.
High standards for life isn't necessarily a bad thing, but what kind of goals in life can be. There will always be some conflict in life, but does that make all joy destroyed? Conflicts can fit in a utopia world because we learn from it. If we don't, how would we differenciate that something is wrong? How would we know what real happiness if we don't know what sad is?
Everyones perspective on perfect is different. You must remember that one mans definition of perfect can be as perverted and twisted as possible while another can be a beautiful field of roses and dandilions. To bend our perception of perfection would create comformity, isnt that exactly what we are doing right now. And have you come to think that maybe the society we live in now is the most utopian it can get? We question it because we are human, no matter how good our life we will strife to make it seem hard and advance to cancel those things which we believe makes our lives worse.
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