The Utopian World Championship

Tom Milner-Gulland: The Globally Created Utopia

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If it is to grow from the inside, a utopia can only be built from the outside. The GCU is a technologically pioneering project aimed at settling refugees from around the world and giving them goals towards which to work in unison. It is constructed on African desert, reclaimed by virtue of hydroponics and landscaped to be scenically the envy of the world. Its capital city embraces a visionary spirit and cutting-edge alternative technology, married with an ethos sustained by perceptive and philosophically rigorous, yet open-minded and pluralistic moral teaching, rendering it a model that speaks to the human condition in myriad ways.
Human nature requires goals that are abstract and self-propagating together with goals that are concrete and attainable. Nucleus achieves social harmony and aims to demonstrate the potential of the motivated, yet ordinary, human, when humans work in concert to make the whole of their energies greater than the sum of its parts.
Because the GCU is outward looking it becomes an engine for the betterment of the world, perpetuating a system of feedback: its ethos encourages states around the globe to be permanently concerned for the preservation of peace through the sanctity of moral principle. With the emphasis on education, transparency and pioneering development (in a period of crisis following from peak oil), a malleable political system grows as organically as does the state apparatus, the politics being free from the baggage of the preconceptions associated with right and left wing. A through-flow of visitors and inhabitants sustains vibrancy in culture, ideas and finance. The full power of the human spirit is demonstrated, evidence being presented to the world on the completion of every new engineering project, the excellence of the undertaking of the project being manifest in spite of the limited consumption of commodities.
This account of the utopia is founded in a system of theologically orientated moral philosophy, which is expounded in some detail. The GCU's vision is one aimed at propagating further visionary endeavours, the possibilities they open reflecting the infinite and self-developing possibilities of heaven.

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Justice

The prevailing ethos, attributable to the moral teaching in the GCU, is one that sustains low crime rates. People are kept active, purposeful and bound in a spirit of co-operation between each other and with the law enforcement agencies. The level of technology in Nucleus enables the latter to be divided into networks of strategically centred, electronically linked sectors.
There are not the typical Western anxieties surrounding some key methods of crime prevention, in respect of notions about ideology. The knowledge prevails that where a general consensus holds a method to be inappropriate, the political system will respond positively. There is a general striving towards a society in which laws are almost redundant and social harmony rests upon the people respecting constitutionally adopted moral principles the transgression of which is estimated by matter of degree. Thus a democratically shaped state apparatus is used in such a way as to create a political ethos in which the development and execution of governmental policy consistently adheres to general, morally responsible principles as opposed to being essentially manipulative of their role of such principles in the mind of the people. The ongoing transformation of the legal system becomes a vehicle for further enhancing democracy, since juries will, when popular demand is officially deemed sufficient, assemble to consider the moral conduct of those in power, even when there has been no breach of law. In areas where it becomes evident that the transformation is impracticable the developments are designed to be reversible.

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