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Monday, April 30, 2018

#3 Part two of the final report of why utopias can’t exist

In the first part I talked about why I believe utopias and dystopias can't exist. In this last part I want to be talking about why a utopia not necessarily good. Your utopia maybe different from someone else's definition but in the end you end up with “perfect society.” Usually someone's utopia is a place with no war, no starvation, no racism. The one thing that people don't pay attention to is that a utopia would just destroy the need for certain things. The need to write down history would just be destroyed. History is conflict, it maybe be in the form of war or maybe conflict between classes (Karl Marx). What is the need to write down conflict if there is no conflict in the world. Science would also come to a screeching halt. New inventions and discoveries are meant to make our lives easier. What is the need for new inventions make our lives easier if they are already perfect. It is also the same story for science if you have everything to make our lives perfect what is a need for it. Next comes philosophy,  if we live in a perfect society was the need for creative thinking. The death of many fields of study will come if a utopia is established just simply because there is no need for it. No new inventions ,no philosophy, no history these could be interpreted as elements of a dystopia. A world with no higher thinkers and the technological advancement is stagnant, does that sound like a utopia? On the contrary that sounds like the basic plot to the Mad Max movies. This leads into my original argument that a utopia is a dystopia. As soon as a “ utopia” is formed it will immediately be transformed into a dystopia. This will lead to a vicious cycle of working ourselves up to a utopia only to fall back down and then restart the process. Every time we try to get to the top (utopia status) we would always fall before then. You can see this through history the ancient romans rising up to create the perfect empire then falling in on itself. The Soviets trying to accomplish their communistic utopia is another example. I'm not saying that we should stop trying to make our society better I'm saying that we can't make it perfect. There always be a flaw in a society and if you do make a flawless society it will fall in on itself because it would kill off science, philosophy ,history. My opinion was heavily influenced by Karl Marx “The End of History” essay. Looking back on it I can see that most of my ideas are really pessimistic about society but it's better to see the world with cold calculating point of view than ignorant one

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  1. Better still to see the world accurately and intelligently. There's really no serious prospect of a perfect world, as the best utopian writers know perfectluy well. They're trying to throw present imperfection into sharper relief and motivate us to do something about it. Complaining that in a utopia we'd not write history or invent new things seems silly.

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