![]() ![]() Utopia isn’t one thing for everyone, but rather a set of diverse solutions that cater to each communities’ environmental and personal needs. We can’t meet everyone’s needs in a country of hundreds of thousands or millions we have to think smaller. This is what makes governing large populations nearly impossible. Utopia can never truly be fulfilled, not when the word means something different to everyone. What if we were never meant to do more than live simply and nurture our environment? What if the search for utopia was a dead-end? What if there isn't one utopia for all? Photo by Benjamin Combs on UnsplashUtopia is smaller-scale than we think ![]() These fantasies of utopia bound us to an unsustainable (and inhospitable) future, and it’s time to let go of the idea of floating freeways and self-driving cars, and instead reimagine an achievable utopia, one that goes beyond the material things and is rooted in what we really seek: belonging, acceptance, security, nourishment, contribution and fulfillment. We maintained the existing divide between “man” and pried it open further with “advancement.” We’re less connected than ever, we’re more in debt, and we’ve sacrificed our planet’s well-being in the meantime. Are we happy yet? Did our world achieve the greater good for all? Did we build a sustainable future for our lifetime and our children’s? On paper it seems like we’ve accomplished perfection: a utopian world with flying aircrafts, information at our fingertips through the Internet, as well as luxurious homes filled with our heart’s every desire. Photo by Victor on Unsplash Humanity’s want for more ![]() We never thought to ask what we were trading for our technological utopia, one that is built on quick extraction for instant gratification. With a greater reach of information came a craving to achieve this version of utopia we began to believe that our infinite discovery of resources and using them for development would unlock our true utopian society. After its release, many authors took his ideas and used them to create a new literary genre that still exists today.īetween Moore and modern day, we saw the evolution of utopia begin to explore futuristic societies where discovery, knowledge and modern science were highly praised. Moore’s 1516 novel, Utopia showed a world with simple laws, communal ownership, and equal education for everyone. He revived a wave of utopian thought in the 16th century, where he influenced the life and works of many future philosophers and novelists and helped create political movements like socialism. Utopia resurfaced in the modern world through famous English philosopher Thomas Moore. The dialogue was one of the earliest known recordings of man questioning the existing political regimes and proposing a series of alternate visions of a perfect city. Its origins can be traced back to 375 BC when Greek philosopher Plato released his influential political dialogue “The Republic”. The concept of utopia began as an imaginary society where people lived their lives in a perfect environment governed by laws that provided happiness to everyone. A true utopia is defined as a stable life for all its citizens, and to have a future that addresses all human needs, we need to factor nature into the equation. Share Tweet Share Pin Luxurious sky rises, high-tech buildings and machinery have no place in a true utopian reality, and yet it’s all we’ve ever seen in our accepted versions of a future “perfect world”Įven before today’s modern utopian films like Tomorrowland and Black Panther, we were told legends of Atlantis, where our perceived vision of utopia was an “evolved” society filled with advanced technology, marble halls, and the elite feasting on foods from around the world.īy romanticizing the idea that in order to live in harmony we have to live in luxury, we’ve created unrealistic goals of wealth, achievement and development, which are only achievable by the few and damaging to many. ![]()
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