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What does your Utopia look like?
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RE: What does your Utopia look like?
(August 31, 2016 at 7:37 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: Can you imagine a better world? Would you describe it here?

I dream of the day when there's a world government. I think that would be best for civilization. And it would make a lot of sense too, what with the recent(on a civilisational scale) advances in communications and transportation. I think it would help the economy, science, culture, arts. I think it would bring people of different backgrounds together and provide clearly positive alternatives to group thinking and discriminatory tendencies.

I also think that government should better figure out how to provide for its own people, or, at least, how to give them the chance to provide for themselves. I think technology will get us there eventually.

I believe in certain universal benefits, such as healthcare and whatnot. I also believe in an improved justice system for each and every part of the world with a greater focus on rehabilitation than on retribution(which there shouldn't be any of, in fact) where criminals are concerned.

I'll maybe add more later. What are yours?



A system which focus on providing assured benefits will likely eventually stagnate and collapse under burden imposed by the inevitable machinations of its beneficiaries as they scheme to take more benefit from the system than the system can really support on permanent basis.   No system of rules and regulations designed to prevent this is likely to be able to perpetually keep ahead of the focused calculations of those powerfully driven by the human instinct to be opportunistic and get ahead.
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#12
RE: What does your Utopia look like?
(September 13, 2016 at 3:26 am)Alex K Wrote: TNG

How can that be utopia contain Wesley Crusher?
Big Grin
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#13
RE: What does your Utopia look like?
My utopia would be a world without the need to dream for a better world. Where people don't need to hoard resources, where people wouldn't need to suffer to have knowledge of suffering, where people do not feel the need to be superior and stand above everyone else, and where magic exists Tongue
Quote:To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
- Lau Tzu

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#14
RE: What does your Utopia look like?
(September 13, 2016 at 8:38 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(September 13, 2016 at 3:26 am)Alex K Wrote: TNG

How can that be utopia contain Wesley Crusher?
Big Grin

Oh, in that Utopia, I am Wesley Crusher

ROFLOL
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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RE: What does your Utopia look like?
am I the only one with orgy utopia ideas ?

c'mon people BDSM kinky stuff everyday, that's awesome.

your utopias suck.
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#16
RE: What does your Utopia look like?
We have lots of room for improvement and I hope we improve living standards for people below what's common in Europe and North America, get population growth under control, and stop causing mass extinction.

However I think it's human nature that no matter how much better things get, we won't appreciate it unless we change our nature. Most of us are already living in a material utopia compared to our great-grandparents and it's always what's still wrong that occupies us. Which is a prerequisite for making things better, so I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, just that it won't make us happy. That would take medication or a paradigm shift.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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#17
RE: What does your Utopia look like?
My avatar.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: What does your Utopia look like?
(September 13, 2016 at 10:53 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: We have lots of room for improvement and I hope we improve living standards for people below what's common in Europe and North America, get population growth under control, and stop causing mass extinction.

However I think it's human nature that no matter how much better things get, we won't appreciate it unless we change our nature. Most of us are already living in a material utopia compared to our great-grandparents and it's always what's still wrong that occupies us. Which is a prerequisite for making things better, so I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, just that it won't make us happy. That would take medication or a paradigm shift.

And in a way, that's a good thing. Imagine if we were content with everything we had, how far would we have progressed?
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#19
RE: What does your Utopia look like?
Excited Penguin, your op reminds me of the idealistic, intelligent, visionary, eloquent, and peaceful character Edith Keeler from the Star Trek original series episode "City on the Edge of Forever" (2nd to last episode of season 1).  She echoes the sentiments that you have expressed, as she attempts to persuade the men in the depression era soup kitchen that humanity is capable of so much more.  This particular episode is an excellent piece of sci-fi that is relevant to the ideas discussed in this thread, and it is a stand alone if anyone is interested in watching it (its on amazon prime and netflix).  Live long and prosper, Excited Penguin, fellow AF members, and anyone else.











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#20
RE: What does your Utopia look like?
My utopia looks like lots of beautiful sexy intelligent adults getting together 1 on 1 having interesting, deep, meaningful and also fun and silly conversations with each other with lots of giggles 40% of the time, exploring a virtual reality with infinite possibilities with each other 20% of the time and fucking the hell out of each other the remaining 40% of the time. If any of these people ever got bored with each other they could switch to another partner but in this Utopia boredom wouldn't exist. Also occasionally talking to two people instead of one would be an option, but for me 4 people talking at once is less fun and almost always two on one is less fun than one on one. When it comes to the sex more people would be fun sometimes though Big Grin

This would all be on a beach of course, and there would be unlimited ice creams of any flavor you could think up to eat whenever you wanted. And you could just imagine any food you wanted and it would appear.
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