I think a utopian society can only be achieved in death. Because as you said, no two people will ever think of it the same way. I'm fond o saying 'All of reality is completely subjective" and it's true. This is a computer I'm typing on, but it would be another thing to someone speaking a different language, a god to a neanderthal, the devil to a Puritan...
So, then, once you realize the idea that a., each human wants their own perfect society and that b., perfection and time are mutually exclusive, and c., humans are trapped by time, then it's pretty obvious that humans can never have -anything- perfect. Perfection implies a thing does not change, and the only constant in this world is change. Therefore, a utopian society is a self-defeating concept. Then again I kind of think =everything= is made with the seeds of its destruction within it. Look at us humans. We age because our RNA slowly deteriorates after billion of copies, and no matter what medicine we invent or machines we make up we'll never be able to undo that, because we're born screwed. Nothing gold can stay, and all.
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Date: 2007-05-01 02:08 pm (UTC)So, then, once you realize the idea that a., each human wants their own perfect society and that b., perfection and time are mutually exclusive, and c., humans are trapped by time, then it's pretty obvious that humans can never have -anything- perfect. Perfection implies a thing does not change, and the only constant in this world is change. Therefore, a utopian society is a self-defeating concept. Then again I kind of think =everything= is made with the seeds of its destruction within it. Look at us humans. We age because our RNA slowly deteriorates after billion of copies, and no matter what medicine we invent or machines we make up we'll never be able to undo that, because we're born screwed. Nothing gold can stay, and all.