(September 13, 2016 at 3:14 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: My utopia is something like Star Trek. People are free to pursue what they love because there is plenty of cheap clean energy, so the food is free people don't waste time and life earning it along with housing. Instead of working in some offices they terraform Venus and populate it with animals and people. They are constantly bombarded by pictures of deep space by myriads of probes sent around. They also roam all over the planet since fuel is so cheap that they practically don't live anywhere permanently. Robots are making their housing on, let's say some place, and then they tow it by air on desired locations.
That kind of world would be different almost like between us and people in ancient Egypt. That's why when I watch TNG I feel like I'm seeing people on higher level of evolution - they're always happy and pleased because they do what they love and can fix almost any problem that comes around. Indeed I think that in that kind of world where money has no value religion doesn't exist, because as any other business it died out.
Well said, Fake Messiah. Your post reminds me of the TNG season 1 episode 'neutral zone.' The enterprise crew just cannot grasp how we managed to survive in such 'primitive' (20th century) conditions. I enjoyed the dialog between Picard and Ralph Offenhouse: living life solely for the pursuit of self-improvement is an idea that is alien to one who primarily lives for the accumulation of material things and vice versa.
