What would your perfect world, utopia/eutopia look like? How would you design your eutopa or utopia, your per?
Monday, November 16th, 2009 at
4:03 am
What would your perfect world, utopia/eutopia look like?
How would you design your eutopa or utopia, your perfect world. What would be the government, society, technology, and culture? Actually More’s original Utopia isn’t so bad. A tad limited by the 16th century, but generally quite agreeable. Actually quite a few dystopias especially Brave New World, don’t seem so bad either. And I would love to online meds without prescription live in won of Ayn Rand’s "collectivist" dystopias.
So how would you design your earthly paradise?
My utopia would be one based upon the universal balance of positive and negative energy.
Balance would be the baseline for my society. My society will be sustainable, responsible, flexible, and equitable.
So the policy of my new society
Balance of Positive and Negative
There will be 4 baseline principles
Sustainability / Responsibility / Flexibility / Equitability
Government:
My government will combine the elements of Democracy, Communism, and Socialism in effort to provide for the needs of all. The marching orders of my government will be Strength and Power are not an entitlement it is a responsibility, it is for the Strong to Help the weak. This will not merely be due to altruism but it will be a civic duty.
Each citizen between the age of 28 and 48 will have to serve in a mandatory 2 year government service position. This will be a position of some sort of public service that is directly aligned to the decision and law making process there will be a variety of avenues to accomplish this. The purpose for this is to keep each citizen involved within their government and make it their duty to know what is going on.
Economics and Resources:
There will be no limits to Economic growth driven by innovation. However, Private wealth will not allowed to be used in policy decisions elections etc. As opposed to a production and consumption based economy we will have an cyclical lifecycle economy based upon production consumption and re-absorbtion so that energy and resources utilized based upon the idea of transformation from on state to the next thereby ensuring that waste eliminated.
Education:
My education system will be tailored on the strengths exhibited in children from birth. If a child is not strong in art but is strong in science then that child will be placed on a science track. Education will be tailored to a child strong areas and how a child think and learns this will be followed on up into the college and post graduate levels.
Science Technology Art and creativity:
These areas will be the focal point of my society new ideas will be the engine for progress in my society. My system will not reward ideas with money but it will focus on boosting the ego of the visionary and it will provide that visionary with scientific resources with the understanding that person has a responsibility to teach and help others.
The only negative thing that comes to mind is complacency combined with the misdirected ambition and a need for the strong to victimze the weak it is my hope that I will have created a society that forces people to evolve away from their primitive instincts which lead to unchecked greed, pride, gluttony, sloth, anger, lust, and envy.
My Utopia would be a cottage. The cottage will have a fridge, stove, cabinets, et cetera. Everything I need to live. Outside that cottage would be a field, with beautiful mountains in the distance. There would be a massive garden with a reflective lake. A forest would be at the foot of the mountains. Even the weather would make it beautiful. Overcast skies, fog, light rain, all of it.
My Utopia wouldn’t be a technologically advanced Utopia, but a natural and peaceful one.
Perfect doesn’t exist =).
It’s a nice thought, though.
Utopias are impossible unless everyone thinks the same way-where’s the fun in that? Chaos is a tad more enjoyable. I like the world I have now: twisted and sometimes unpredictable…suits me just fine.
However, if I can create a world, I would create one where it is not a sin to be worldly…for indeed that is the only way most human beings can be happy. A world where all ideas are allowed to be expressed no matter how heinous or disagreeable and stand the test of reason and perhaps…time. A world where people act not because of what is to be gained but rather because it is what they want to do. A world were power is reserved for people who were BORN to hold it-who seem to be tailor-made to lead, and knew how to use power and when not to use it.
My utopia would be: A small house/cottage in the woods near a lake, with a few farm animals and plenty of sun. I would want a husband, son, and daughter to live there with me. I would want it to be warm and welcoming. I could see the red, yellow, and orange leaves on the ground in fall. I could see the sunset slowly fading over the lake and causing a beautiful reflection. I could see and feel the night. The moon giving that eerie type feeling. I could see myself cuddling with my husband on the back porch while the kids were asleep. The last thing I could see is me being happy.
My utopia would be advanced and peacful. I would allow only a few people to my house. I wouldn’t want my utopia tainted by someone else.
My utopia is still a work in progress!!!
Your mom Opia.
I just wanted to say that Giavani’s Utopia sounds not like utopia and more like contradiction personified into a world.
That is the problem when trying to create any type of Utopia (in reality or imagined) where there are OTHER ppl. who are real, with their own desires and wants and NOT just part of your fantasy.
I just thought of something. When I used to do a lot of acid, I remember I kind of had a utopia type trip especially this once. I’ll explain.
I was in my girlfriend’s room with her and I noticed a deep ultra-purple light emanating from where the closet opening was cracked open a little (I LOVED any shade of purples). I remember KNOWING/thinking that that was the opening to another place, a place I wanted to go, like it was compelling me to go…yet I was ambivalent because of my girl not wanting me to leave, but i thought, for whatever reason I could not bring her there …at least in my mind i thought that. IDK Y?.
But anyway I went and opened the door and what I saw was everything that made me feel…at ease and good.
The skies were all HUGE patterns/graphs of different shades of indigo, purple and the like, even the shadows were like that. Everything was sooo symetrical and perfect. There was just one REAL tall mountain peak with like a sunlight pouring down it like lava, but not scary like it could hurt you. Then at a perfect angle intersecting (symetrically of course) the lava flow was a *beautifull* river flowing down the other side of the mountain. It sparkled and seemed as if would be the cleanest warmest best feeling to be able to just envelope my body in it. I felt it not just imagined it. The feeling was indescribable. Just PURE PERFECTION. Most everything else was like these really cool looking bubble type plants in what seemed to be the antithesis of what color the skies were and all types of other type stuff like that. Everything was perfectly balanced and symetrical in EVERY way and everything flowed into something else at the most perfect place or angle.
I could go on and describe forever this vision and night, but I do not want to take up too much more space. But anyway I did not actually go "into" this world, yet I *felt* everything it had to offer me as if it was beckoning me to stay forever.
Then my girls voice started to be noticable (she was probably talking to me for a while but she was like tuned out for then) and I turned to listen to her. I told her to come see, but she wouldn’t so I went over and touched her to urge her to see, but then when we got back it was still there, but SO small, but on like thousands of tiny bubbles that you would only be able to know what it was if you saw it before, basically gone (obviously she would not have seen it anyway, but my mind thought she would at the time)
I think if I could have my own utopia it could be just like that. It looked and FELT so perfect in everyway. It was just everything that put me at ease in a physical(seeming) place.
When I think about it…your utopia kind seems as if it would be better if it was only you and ppl. that you MADE for your own entertainment, companionship, and love. Well, I gues I would need Family, GF/wife and friends. (Isn’t Utopia supposed to be selfish?) Otherwise their desires would "taint" your perfect world with their version of "perfection", ya know? Though I would alter it for those I truly loved. I would not want to be alone, not at all….but i would still want the perfection I desired. So I think A girl of my own fantasy to be my companion. ANd surely others could "pop in" but only when i desired company. Just me and her in Paradise, maybe even children, no definitely children. ( I don’t have a girl right now, but if I did or was already in love with a girl I would take her. But since that is not the case right now, I would make the perfect girl for me…..OR just tweak one of my ex girlfriends (a specific one) a little bit to make her perfect (or at least tolerable!
) Well really,… any of my ex girls *at that time* I would have taken them into this world with me if it was then, ya know. (i would have probably regretted it but. 
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So my Utopia is/was more about the "feeings", perfection, and just sheer hedonistic pleasure than it was the real "physical place", though that was perfect too. But it was more the overall "feeling" it embraced me with. Like "Nirvana".
Sorry for being so long, it ws nice to remember that again, God, that was so long ago yet I remember it SO vividly.
PS- I do not, I repeat NOT condone the use of any mind altering substance, especially for children and teenagers just in case you think this is a good idea.
PSS- WOW, Ahmad! That sounds like paradise! I can’t wait.
Seriously that sounds scary, and even scarier that there are actually ppl. who feel that this would be a viable alternative to what we have…let alone paradise!
(Did Stalin and Hitler have a baby?!?!)
Yet I will give you credit, you did take the time to answer the question as it was asked and I completely missed the "EARTHLY" part, so I guess you deserve the B/A, but WOW! Earthly paradise for who??? Not the rich, poor, …..nobody. Just work and government up your asss! NO thank you! Though this is not new really…it is essentially communism with a couple teeny tiny twists for the worse.
Basically, what we have in America ON THE BOOKS and the way America was supposed to be run is the closest this world will EVER get to a paradise. Yet, you want communism..I don’t get it? Didn’t we already watch that horribly fail too many times already?