The idea of Utopia is ignored

It’s very simple, a utopia in our society is just virtually and theoretically impossible. A utopia seems to only be possible within our minds. People can come together and try to come up with solution after solution to the world’s biggest problems, but it is inevitable. One solution will lead to another problem. A world without problems? People will always be stubborn, people will always be lazy, people will always want something that they don’t have. Our society is corrupt, people always try to think of a world that is perfect. The idea of ignoring problems is the society I live in. Instead of people facing their problems and taking action, we kick all of it under the rug like it never happened. More or less, we live in a dystopia and only dream of a Utopia.

Many authors and writers tried explaining the idea of a utopia. The one word that sticks in my head when I see these writers and their works is “generalization”. These writers are generalizing the idea of a Utopia and trying to make the puzzle piece fit where it’s not supposed to. I must give credit to Johnathan Goldstein for stirring up an idea that really surprised me. He wrote a spinoff of the biblical story of “Noah and the Ark”. The story goes on to tell the life of an old man named Noah and his family. Noah (in my perspective) is the hard-working individual. His lazy and creative sons are the new generation that Noah is not used to. As the story goes on and the term Utopia appears and is used to describe the new generation of people. Noah does not see the new generation as a utopia. He thinks that the new generation is wasting their time and that they will never be hard workers. “He had lived long enough to see craftsmanship was going down the toilet and vowed never to become one of the “dancing dummies””. Fast forward to the end of the novel, Only Noah(the hard worker) and his family are on the Ark, plus dozens of animals. So why keep the generation that was a “Utopia” out of the Ark and let them die? I believe that this is symbolic to the idea that a greater power such as god or the government keeping this idea of Utopia at bay. In a perfect world, the utopic generation thrives and continues to lead by example and continues the Utopia. But in this case, once the idea of Utopia comes up, it gets eliminated. It gets thrown under the rug.

Imagine this, a world where everyone is financially stable, happy, no one is greedy, government is fair, education is free or low cost, world hunger isn’t a thing, and the earth is not polluted and environment is clean and healthy (“the exact opposite of our society cough cough”). I could go for days, but my point is that we can only “imagine” and “dream” of it. It’s a world that’s only visited by our thoughts and never physically or by our actions. If people want to live in a world that’s “perfect” to them, then they need to take action and point out the flaws. But in today’s society, anyone that speaks out of turn gets shut down. No one can win because ideas will always be different and no one will ever see eye to eye. Each individual on this planet is unique. The snowflake theory takes its place. We all have different wants in life. Every person I have ever met in life has had a different view of their future and their “perfect life”.

Citations

Goldstein, Jonathan. "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible!" Goodreads.Web. 5 Mar. 2017.

-Peter C (625 words)