Utopia

Utopia

Have you ever wished for the world to be perfect? Most people, whether conscious of it or not, search for a better place. The search for utopia usually ends up feeding thier discontent because utopia is not reality. By examining humans need for control, equality and dependence on macines to do the work for us one can see that utopia is difficult to attain.

One of the best examples of how utopia fails is the need for control. That environment appears to be ideal-such as no crime in a peacefull world. In the regular population, there will laways be individuals bent on behaving « abnormally ». The term «utopia » implies an absence of conflict. But those unusual behaviours always start conflict. This results in distopian environment, a future where peace is kept by resorting to extreme means.

Along those lines humans may attempt utopia by creating equality. Fairness and equality are desirable elements of any society. But can they be taken too far?   Human popoulations have to be varied and so « normal » also has to be varied. If no one is allowed to view others as different, that would not eliminate problems such as dicrimination, but would require impossible levels of control.

As so many people see work being imcompadatable wiht utopia , the search for machines to do the work is integral. Machines can be created to preform almost any task we ask them to do. Our everyday life revolves around the use of machines. What if one day the machines stop? A technological distopia, may be created from our over-dependence on machines.When you depend on something so much, the burden becomes to heavy and it simply cannot support you any longer.

People who are content with life don't have the need to search for utopia. People who are not content with life often search for utopia but will never come across it because there is always something they are discontent with. Everybody has thier own point of view when it comes to utopia so there are always people that...