what is the perfect utopian state?

Question

from the book brave new world...do any of you guys know what makes a perfect utopia? and would this be a good idea to create one? i need help..all i have is stuff about stem cell research and communism..and how that was tied into utopia..

Answer 1

it should be known that Brave New World was penned years before the discovery of DNA and genetics. The caste members of that state were bred to apreciate their place in society through psychological conditioning, not genetic manipulation. Genetic engineering has very little to do with communism.

Utopianism is a way of thinking (Communism being an example) that believes that humans can surrender their desire for self-actualization and work towards the good of the whole, without regards to their own self-interests. That is why Utopias are almost exclusively collectivist societies. Self-actualization can be described as the act of attaining spiritual fulfillment, unquantifiable because every separate person has their own idea of self-actualization. Utopians either deride such notions by labelling them as 'greed', or they claim that self-actualization is the surrender of the self to the greater good. However, that theory falls flat on its face when one realizes that few have the burning desire to be a cog in the machine, which is what the surrender to the greater good turns people into, since all are truly equal, (literally, not in a legal sense) none are allowed to gain self-actualization more so than the least capable person.

It is usually further coupled with economic fallacies. One is that central planning can eliminate scarcity. However, scarity is a concept that is grounded in ideas, not resources (People don't demand piles of steel, they demand cars, which is human ingenuity applied to the pile of steel) thus making centrally planned economies failures from the start, as ideas can not be quantified.

Answer 2

Perfect is a big idea. The closest thing to utopia I have read about lately is the book `Free At Last--The Sudbury Valley School, by Daniel Greenberg, Sudbury Valley School Press.
Now I am not necessarily saying that a utopian state exists there, but the issues and their solutions certainly show the way to get there. As to guidelines it is definitely worth a look-see.
This is coming from someone who spent 13 years in a cult setting which from some points of view came pretty close to utopian for at least some of the members. It failed because it turned out to be a dictatorship and power did corrupt.

Answer 3

First introduce by Plato of in ancient Greece, the concept of a utopian state was first formally presented by Sir Thomas More in his famous book by the very name – Utopia. The concept, in general, is that of an imaginary state idealised in every conceivable way, a place of perfect harmony, peace and bliss. Utopia could also be a state of mind induced by any such contemplation. Like all other idealised concepts of human mind, a utopian state has never been a reality neither in the mind, nor on the land. That would be something that folks would look up to for their inspiration and direction. Perhaps this is something that is expressive of human capacity to conceive and capture excellence in being.

According to religious text, paradise in heaven is the place where mankind originally belongs, a blissful state of being that mankind is advised to work to regain. Alongside all scriptures of three major mono-theist religions have elaborate descriptions of what paradise would be like for those who believed, lived lives righteously.

http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/more/utopia-contents.html

Answer 4

There is not, and can not be, an ideal state. Any state must be governed by people, and people's opinions about the proper nature of governance will differ. Communism failed because it was based on an erroneous economic premise - that labor is the only creator of value. But trade also creates value, and by failing to recognize this, communism necessarily lagged behind other systems which encouraged trade. There is the question of what moral values should influence the government, as seen in your question about stem cell research. A full discussion of such is beyond the scope of this answer, but it will suffice to say that the claims of religion to be the arbiters and preservers of moral values are groundless.

Answer 5

And yet California is the international’s eighth-greatest economic equipment. at the same time as pink states are a drain on the Treasury. do not you call that welfare? Why do not you different states toss us out of the Union. Then we may be able to keep the money we deliver down a rat hollow to you losers and lets stability our own funds. we've our own oil fields. lets keep it centred on ourselves. we are the international locations salad bowl. we may be able to end feeding you and advance bio gas fairly. we've geothermal ability, missal silos and military basses. we will purely keep the nuclear subs in San Diego. You Midwest farmers will pay your own subsidies.

Answer 6

Utopia has come to mean an unattainable goal.

The perfect society does not exist and it is foolhardy to persue the impossible dream, therefore any political idealist who professes a better world is utopic and to be avoided: Stalin, Marx, Hitler, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, President Clinton, and so on.