Do you think we will achieve Utopia as a society or is that only fiction?

Question

hey connemara, no need to be rude. FYI, I'm no longer a student so it's not for homework. I don't appreciate you insulting my intelligence like that. The purpose of this place is to learn something and to share ideas, but that doesn't mean you have to be condescending.

Answer 1

I think we are in our last days. There's so many people depressed because the world is so effed up, which is why they commit suicide. We're not safe on the road, because intoxicated people drive every day. Our kids aren't safe, because someone wants to rape or kidnap them. We're not safe, because people are envious or psycho and want to kill us. People fight and get killed over money, love, and power. Utopia is something we'll only read about in fairy tales. Our world is doomed.

Answer 2

Fantasy.

Utopian societies are usually small in number and easy to monitor and control. As we know move past the 6 billion mark, it becomes an impossibility to even define a utopian society that reflects the desires of all members of society.

Even those of us who advocate for democracies forget that it was based on a very small city state. What works in a micro context does not necessarily translate into the mezzo or macro.

Answer 3

All literary Utopias have a fatal flaw: they envision societies that never change. This, of course, denies the fundamental nature of the world -- which is to change, constantly and relentlessly. Of all the Utopian writers, I believe Plato was the only one who realized the problem of change, and he tried to address it in his Republic by constructing mechanisms which would inhibit change -- e.g., minimal contact with the outside world, population control, etc. Even so, these passages sound almost annoyed, and I believe Plato realized that these things would probably be either completely unfeasable or ineffective. (Yes, I know that "The Republic" probably isn't a model of a real state, but even if it is a metaphor, one's suspension of disbelief goes only so far.)

Any society, no matter how good, is doomed to failure if it is not prepared to adapt to shifting circumstances.

Answer 4

I think utopia is only possible in a very small community. When you increase the population, there is a crunch on resources and anonymity increases as accountability decreases. The group must have goals in common, so homogeneity is almost an absolute must.

Answer 5

Moving from the current dystopia to a "true" utopia will require that the consciousness level of the entire species somehow be raised by at least 1000% ? Could happen!! :)))

Answer 6

Read Revelations. Utopia will never be achieved before humanity is destroyed, the best thing I can tell you is to create your own. Make everything around you as perfect as you be it won't be there long

Answer 7

Not to be pessimist but it is impossible. The human nature is by no means perfect, that is why we are human. The struggles of everyday life are part of what make it worth living. In the end, you don't need society to be perfect for your own world to be so. It's all in the way you see things.

Answer 8

Utopia in itself is fiction and thus, it cannot be achieved in reality. Watch out though, if you use that answer for homework, the teacher will know YOU did not think it up!

Answer 9

this is a dystopian society. a dystopian society has no chance of becoming a utopia. it must be destroyed for a utopia to begin to develop.

Answer 10

It can not be done. There will always be something we will perceive as imperfection. It's the human nature.