Utopian Thinking

Utopian Thinking

This isn’t a criticism, or maybe it is, it strikes me  that no matter who you are,  nor what ideology, it seems  to always come down  to making the perfect society,  and if you go down this  path,  than x happens and all shall be perfect and there will be  a nirvana forever and forever.  This is rather common, but rarely do I ever find an ideology that actually accepts as its outcome something less than perfect. This is my preference by the by, my utopian idea, involves something I call the multiplicity, a system which incorporates all systems, and doesn’t even try to incorporate the perfect anything. You see the problem with the perfect system, or the great utopia, is that it always presumes that there will always be one solution that is perfect, one society that will be perfect, and frankly that doesn’t really jive with reality.  Reality in the human world is a patchwork of imperfect solutions, and represent on their most basic level imperfect adaptations to a constantly changing environment. If,  to give a example, democracy were the best  form  of government, then  why isn’t it  used more commonly, why do we see spatially across the world so many non democracies,  temporarily  it’s even worse, how  come so many of the  world’s governments have been historically monarchies? If it were the best form of government, then it seems logical that it would have been used far more often than it has.

There are many other utopian ideas, that this one solution will solve all problems, but the reality is that any one solution is only a temporary solution at best. This is because it represents a purely temporary adaptation to a purely temporary environmental condition. Perhaps that is the problem, people think that their purpose is to make a ‘perfect’ society or come up with the perfect something, but the reality is always far from perfect.  The common refrain to such is a response is well you didn’t do this or that, and that is why my perfect thing or perfect society didn’t work. Never does it ever come to perhaps the perfect anything is a fantasy, borne out of a human mind that tries (but never succeeds) to play tricks with reality. This inability to accept a less than perfect something comes from also I suspect an inability to process difference. If a difference exists then it must be imperfect, this conflicts with ego’s preference for something utopian.

So to take away from this piece, you should actually accept that there is no utopian anything, that you must by necessity try and find a imperfect solution, because there will never be a perfect anything.