The Perfect World: The Future Of The Utopian Society

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Humans, since the beginning of our first civilization and throughout the history of mankind, have always strived for a perfect world that would secure our society’s interests. Whether they are beneficial to a small group or the whole society, those interests will guide and shape the future of this new society. As of today, human civilization has never before seen an advancement of as many aspects of our lives from living commodities, entertainment, services, technologies, and so on that seem to reflect a promising world of the future. However, at the same time, human history has also witnessed great turmoil and many setbacks in our society ranging from small-scale problems such as immorality, variant of discriminations, financial crisis to …show more content…

One of the major ideas about the future of humans has been the utopian society, or simply utopia, which is an ideally perfect world where everyone can live harmoniously together despite different backgrounds, ethnicity, religions, beliefs, and so on. However, the idea of such a society is bombarded with many arguments, most of which point out to that, considering the current and harsh conditions that the world is facing, the perfect and dreamed world cannot exist or be realized. To elaborate the utopian society topic, this essay will explore the progress of study of a utopian society, the important characteristic of a utopian world, and investigate the probability of a reality where such a world may exist in mankind’s …show more content…

Peter Fitting, however, discusses in his “A Short History of Utopian Studies” about the dystopian turn that has sprouted since the twentieth century “as the world became increasingly less utopian” (127). Other authors, Helmut K. Anheier, and Mark Juergensmeyer, in their “Utopia, Dystopia” part of the Encyclopedia of Global Studies, says that, in the age of globalization, the idea of an opposite world came into

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