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Is utopia impossible?

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Is utopia impossible?
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Is utopia impossible?
January 1, 2014 at 4:22 pm (This post was last modified: January 1, 2014 at 4:22 pm by BrokenQuill92.)
Is Utopia impossible? Because utopia means something different to everyone.
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RE: Is utopia impossible?
January 1, 2014 at 4:26 pm
Hedonic treadmill. It's not human nature to be consistently happy. You can't have a utopia that most people will recognize as a utopia, because their level of dissatisfaction is a constant.
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RE: Is utopia impossible?
January 1, 2014 at 4:32 pm
In pockets, I think so. The bigger the group is, though, the less likely it will be. The sooner we can find a way to keep the powerful from being corrupted by their power, the sooner we'll have a utopia. Maybe if we treated all positions of power as temporary terms. Don't let them stay in long enough to really screw things over.
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RE: Is utopia impossible?
January 1, 2014 at 5:11 pm
Utopia is perfectly possible. If you don't include people. ANY people.

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RE: Is utopia impossible?
January 2, 2014 at 2:53 am
Utopia would have to mean making people uniform. If you did that, they wouldn't really be human.
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RE: Is utopia impossible?
January 2, 2014 at 2:58 am
Just popped some Soma, I'll let you know in a minute.
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RE: Is utopia impossible?
January 2, 2014 at 3:03 am



It depends on what you mean by Utopia. Particularly since we may be able to manipulate the brain so that everyone feels content, satisfied, and happy all the time, regardless of actual conditions, then we could make a world where everybody thought and felt they were in a utopia, but whether we'd ever actually do that, I doubt it. And I suspect mother nature might offer up some surprise wrinkles.
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RE: Is utopia impossible?
January 2, 2014 at 3:04 am
Utopia? I doubt it.

Distopia? Absolutely.

While perfection is a standard that I doubt humans can attain, we are certainly capable of great things. At least occasionally.
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RE: Is utopia impossible?
January 2, 2014 at 4:47 am
Utopia means "no place"

And that was the point Thomas Moore was making.
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RE: Is utopia impossible?
January 2, 2014 at 6:09 am (This post was last modified: January 2, 2014 at 6:10 am by KichigaiNeko.)
Yes "utopia" is not achievable.

Unfortunately humans have this "ideal" that they aspire to and essentially it is unrealistic.
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