Utopian World Championship

THE UTOPIAN VORTICAL WEB - LIVING ON A BORDERLESS PLANET WITH A DIMINISHING NATURAL WORLD.

By Janet Sealy

Competition year: 2004
Place: 9
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THE UTOPIAN VORTICAL WEB - LIVING ON A BORDERLESS PLANET WITH A DIMINISHING NATURAL WORLD.

CONTENTS


Part 1.

Introduction, Context and Rationale.

1. Introduction.

2. Context and Rationale – for the Utopia of A Conscious Civilization.
- Utopian endings and beginnings.
- The age of the intellect.
- Looking through a new lens for today’s Utopia.
- Leadership of ourselves – A new kind of leadership for Utopia.
- The frailty of being human.
- A Utopia for Pre-citizens.

Part 2.

A Utopian Society of the Mind.


2.1. Search for new understandings in a Utopia of the Mind.
2.2. A 21st century Charter acknowledging the centrality of the Natural World.

Part 3.


The Utopian Vortical Web.

3.1. A Utopian Conversation.
3.2. A Utopian Celebration.
3.3. Utopian Consciousness.

Part 4.

Conclusion, Reference/Short Bibliography, Dedication.

Part 5.

Appendix (#1 -3)

[Submitted by: Janet Sealy]

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THE UTOPIAN VORTICAL WEB - LIVING ON A BORDERLESS PLANET WITH A DIMINISHING NATURAL WORLD.


Part 1. Introduction, Context and rationale.


Introduction.

There is an inscription on a splendid piece of Islamic architecture (Muhgal Period) in the capital of India, Delhi, which reads:

“If ever there is a Paradise on Earth, it is here. It is here. It is here.”


About 400 years later, at the cutting edge of science we are placing bacteria, humans and distant galaxies into a mind based cosmology which confirms that we indeed have a complex and multivariant paradise here and now. It is perhaps the only paradise we will ever have. But as humans destroy this Paradise through war, technology, violence and greed, thoughts of utopia were never more relevant, than they are now. Whilst Utopia is indeed a place hard to define as the word also means ‘no-place’ and to use Rebecca Lettervall’s words, “Utopias may function as critique of the prevailing society, as a literary genre or as a well of future dreams,” [1] – the challenge facing us today is to prove that Utopia can exist concurrent with modern mayhem. Using the imagery of “rebuilding the ship at sea”, Marius de Geus notes, however, that “The notion of Utopia rarely receives recognition in politics; instead it is more often seen as a daydream – a dangerous, romantic and unfeasible fantasy.” [2] In today’s world teetering on the brink, governments can no longer disregard notions, visions and descriptions of “better worlds” – for what alternatives are there? Is it to be business as usual? More of the same? Or a race toward Anarchy? In attempting answers to these questions, it is more than wise to remind ourselves that all of these options relate – not to nations marked out by lines on maps but, to vast ecological scapes of land and water, on one lonely cosmic orb. Try as we might to describe ourselves as Nigerian, American, German, Iranian, Australian, Indian, Chinese or Japanese, to fit into those lines on maps, we are really simply citizens of a borderless and finite globe.

 

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