Fitzhugh The Perfect Society

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For the past hundred years, people have been trying to develop this ideal society in which everything was perfect. Throughout those years, we can conclude that each of them came to the realization that it simply wasn’t possible. To this day there are societies in which they still believe they can develop this perfect society but what they don’t know is that every Utopia is a Dystopia in disguise and therefore unobtainable. Everyone likes this idea of a perfect society, in fact who wouldn’t want to live somewhere where everything is perfect. But this whole idea of perfect society is all wrong. We can never reach that place no matter how we do things. George Fitzhugh discusses the uses of slaves and how they affected society. He starts off …show more content…

In a Utopian society there are people who are above others in which they would have a lot of power and control over other people. The whole problem with this though, is the fact that people are going to want to be the one in power. In this society in particular (where slaves are allowed), Fitzhugh says the best thing a philanthropist can do is buy slaves, because then his power of control is greatest--his ability to do practical good most perfect. He is insisting that buying slaves will make a person feel like they are in a lot of power and control since they own a slave but this will only lead to a slippery slope down the hill. When you think about it, yes they will have this power and control over someone but when that someone gets older and is no longer able to do certain things you are going to be the one who has to deal and live with it. The slaves would have you under their control due to the fact that you own them and if they aren't able to do things that they used to because of sickness or age you would have to take care of them and give them what they need. Fitzhugh even talks about how Infant negros, sick, infirm and superannuated negroes hold most valuable property in the services and capital of their master. The masters hold no property in such slaves, because, for the time, they are of no value. He even admits that slave will hold no …show more content…

If this is the idea that everyone is only out for themselves, you can get a better picture of how a society like that will run. Everyone would be in constant need to be number one or the best and that's all because of human nature. We are naturally made that way and have a competitive instinct regardless of everything. It is more realistic to develop a dystopia only because there is nothing out there that is perfect. Realizing now that regardless of how you structure a society there will always some flaw that will overall lead this idea of a Utopian society to its real identity, a Dystopia in

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