Essay On Utopia

Utopia is defined as a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions, (merriam-webster.com). Utopia is a mindset that people are conditioned to believe is achievable, when in actuality it isn’t. In a utopian society when people believe that they have reached idealized perfection, there will still be things or people that make the society imperfect. “Every utopia faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?” (Margaret Atwood, a novelist, said this August 24th. 2003). This is the biggest problem with trying to create a utopian society. We live in a diverse world and throughout history have strived to make diversity acceptable. Having a utopian society where all of the people have to agree on everything and act the same way defeats the whole purpose of what we have been working for as a society in terms of acceptance. Utopia is imaginary, and is said to be a perfect place, but there is no shared idea of perfection, so society keeps striving for a utopian society that isn’t achievable, and as a society we are lazy.

Some people describe utopia as a real, achievable place or mindset, and I disagree with that. Utopia is completely imaginary. There is no perfect world in which everybody thinks or feels the same way about everything, because everyone is strongly opinionated when it comes to certain subjects, and people agree and disagree on everything. There are

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no two people in the world that agree on every single thing.

When we were having our last seminar on Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, Frank made the point that utopia would be achievable if you broke down society, and isolated all of the people in groups of likes and dislikes so that each of the groups would agree. ...

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...n, but it takes character and good nature to hold him” (Thomas More, Utopia). What this quote is

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implying is that it isn’t important to just be pretty, you have to have a great personality to be “perfect”.

As a society, we want everything to be perfect and for there to be no problems, but that isn’t possible because of the problems we are faced with. There is no way that we can have a perfect government where no one makes bad decisions, or a perfect economy where there is no lower class and everyone has money, or a world where everybody treats others equally and believes in the same things. We strive for perfection not even knowing what it is. If we keep making changes that don’t need to be made and spending money and using leadership in the wrong way, we will be even farther away from being perfect because it is a waste of power and money.