"Abandon all hopes of utopia - there are people involoved."
- Clayton Cramer
As negative and blunt as this quote is, it struck me because of its truth.
People create diversity. Ideas and knowledge comes from the thoughts of individuals and groups of people combined. One persons theory or thought may compare or vastly contradict what another person is thinking. But isn't that what makes indivisualism?
Just in our class alone, we all talk about our utopia's... what we think would make a better society... a utopian society... but just within the 20some students in our class there are 20some different ideas of a utopia...
So I suppose my question is.... who defines utopia? There isn't ONE utopia... There isn't one right way or one wrong...
As long as there are people around, there is diversity among them. Behavior, thoughts, beliefs... it all differs from one person to the next...
So is Clayton Cramer right in saying there is no hope for a utopia???
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Perhaps Cramer is right to some extent,depending on how you define utopia. Utopia when defined as the epitome of social perfection is much like a fairytale: implausible and unrealistic. But when we think of utopia has an improvement on current conditions in society, it is possible. And while we each have our different visions of utopia, we can agree on some factors; I think it is possible for a group of people to reach some kind of consensus. So while we can never create a perfect society, we can make improvements on it.
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