Utopian World Championship

John Edmund Kimber Darling: A Theory on How to Become a Utopia

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Here goes.

Utopia. You seem not to here it very often. You here God, Angels, or Extraterrestrials all the time, but not utopia. Why do people fantasise about haven but not haven on earth? Why do people believe that, one day, aliens will show up and solve our entire problems (or invade planet earth, ether way it is the same basic, bloody idea) and that all of our problems will become irrelevant and disappear away into the night when we seem to believe that world peace is impossible? When someone whispers of the utopian dream, it disappears, never to be heard of again. Is it because Adolph Hitler and his NAZI thugs spoke of a “1000-year Reich” and how communism failed miserably and sent a nation broke or is it something much more profound and eternal than that. Why do we avoid this word, as it was a verbal plague? I found this fact really wired. It seems odd that only in the after-life that we can, as a spices, experience a utopia.

According to the dictionary, a Utopia is where a community has the near perfect or perfect social or political system. I don’t think what a Utopia is, by definition, achievable by mankind. What I do believe is however, that we can have world peace, no poverty or disease, no human right’s abuses and, ultimately, find our place in the universe and the reason for our existence. To do this, we need massive improvements on the current systems we have. We already have some of the primers for a Utopia world, such as free health care and education, the language of mathematics and the sciences, religion and knowing the deference between right and wrong. I believe that this is very important for us to know.

Lately, there has been a rise of a genre called “Reality TV” that is really just the next thing in soap opera’s without a steady-cam and even worse acting. Anyway, it is big. Really big. Everybody is watching and talking about these soaps and reality TV shows because they deal with “real life” and “emotions”. They have (supposably) “real people” in “real life situations” under “real life circumstances”. Moreover, soaps and reality TV are cheap in make and they rate well. TV execs love them for that very reason. Forget that they are boring or are all pre-scripted down to the last syllable or that they are dumbing down society, people can relate to them for some odd reason (I don’t know what that reason is, though a have tried to under the reasoning behind soaps and reality TV and have failed). People get hooked on them like some sort of drug, but why? If soap opera’s and Reality TV show are stupid, than why do people love them so much? Moreover, what does this say about us as a civil society?

 

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