Society will shift toward socialist ideals without the need for violent revolution (apex)
Yes in the sense that it was perfect in every way - genetically, morally, and spiritually for example. No in the sense that it was a real place geographically and not imaginary as is commonly associated with the word utopia.
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The Republic (Πολιτεία) by Plato, written around 380 BCE.
The theme is the value and responsibility of the individual.
It is a story set in the far future in a Utopian (or Dystopian depending on how you look at it) society. Despite its setting, it is a simple ethical tale. We ask similar questions in our society? It is okay to kill one innocent person through our death penalty in order to be certain that we kill more of the guilty ones? Or is it better to let one guilty person go free in order to make sure we don't put any innocents to death? Different people have different answers to that question... just as some of the people in this story understand what their enjoyment and freedom is based on, and accept it, while others walk away, preferring disappointment and pain to the idea of contributing to someone else's suffering.
Obviously, the story doesn't deal with all of the philosophical complexities, and the possible symbolic meanings, but it is definitely a story of responsibility and humanity... how do you gauge the value of one versus many? Is the one right to accept suffering? Is the other right to walk away? Are the many right to accept the sacrifice... or the choice of those who walk away? :)
The very existence and nature of this question points precisely to the underlying reason "why," utopia "doesn't work."
The book titled Utopia by Thomas Moore is about Heaven. It is a Christian based novel which talks about the truth of the Heaven that is within the Holy Bible.
Utopia is a civilization or state of being where everything is perfect, everyone is happy, and it has no faults. However, Utopia has been proven to not be attainable due to the selfish nature of humans.
There is not a definite yes or no answer to this question.
In the meaning that ignorance is bliss, yes- the citizens there know nothing about pain or suffering, as they have never seen it, so they are 'happy'. However, their lives are incomplete, because they are deprived of nearly all sensation, including color. So, in a way, they are not living to their fullest potential.
The first attempt did not work out very well. It was about 200 years ago from this year (2009) and it was in North Korea. The ruler tried to make a utopian society but failed when a shootout started between the citizens .The shooting started because of a drug war.
That's someone's answer-- here's mine--
I have lived in a sort of Utopia in the mountains of Vermont. It is hard. We went through a Great Schism. But it is still here. It is in the mind and heart of humanity, and as Gandhi said, "We must begin with the children" if we want a perfect, unbiased and wholly inclusive society.
I don't think censorship lends itself at all to a utopian society. A perfect society would have a free exchange of ideas, therefore I would say that censorship lends itself to a dystopian society.
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In utopian communities, the goal is generally to achieve a perfect form of socialism and that everyone works together and share the bounty equally. However, that normally only works on small communities, it is impossible to achieve an utopian community in a large city. In summary, the goal of the utopian community was to achieve perfection via socialism.
Sir Thomas More wrote the first novel about an ideal world separate from the material one. In our time, Lois Lowry wrote about a community that appears utopian and perfect in the beginning but turns out to be somewhat of a dystopia as emotions and all humane feelings are eradicated. This book is called The Giver. Some other authors have experimented with the utopian/dystopian format, such as George Orwell with Nineteen Eighty-Four along with the novel Brave New World (not written by Orwell). Utopian nations or societies are on the mind of creative authors as perfect worlds are thought up of frequently. In Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, a book written in the 1940s, tells about a constantly watched society that proves to be dystopian. Because of the early years of the Cold War, Orwell was inspired to write a fiction book having to do with the secret police forces found in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany during the 1930s. Orwell also wrote another book, Animal Farm, which tells of the rise of the Soviet Union through metaphors such as animals.
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Link: http://vajrakrishna.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/universal-history-and-the-possibility-of-a-utopia/
Answer:Thats a matter of opinion.there where many different utopian societies that tried to form but failed in the early 1900's i believe and none of them lasted. From this its safe to say no there not, because all it takes is one person in the society to ruin it all and no one is perfect.
Answer:If you study utopian themes in literature and history it will become quickly clear that behind or within every utopia lies a dystopia, its opposite, an embodiment of chaos. A utopia is technically impossible in human society. Humans are frail and fallible. We are imperfect. As such, we are incapable of creating anything that is perfect, such as a utopian or perfect society.Consider this: every society must begin with two people, as a society is a plurality, a group, two or more. these two people could conceivably agree on every subject and topic and rule of their society. However, for a society to continue beyond the existence of its two founding members, it must grow, it must develop as it grows to encompass and include its new members. To not grow is stagnation, and stagnation is death to a society or culture.
As new members are added, either by recruitment or procreation (births), the society must become more complex. New members are incorporated and uses or purposes for these new members must be discovered or developed. This is what complicates it. This development adds variables, the more variable added, the more complex becomes the structure. The more complex a thing becomes, the more potential for entropy or decay. Eventually, it will break down somewhere. While things in nature that break down tend to collapse into decay, the mark of a successful society is its ability to adapt. Utopian societies do not adapt, as by definition they are perfect. Perfect things do not adapt as they do not need to. Hence, utopia is impossible.
Utopia is a term for an ideal society. Its nature: 1. fictional, unrealistic, impossible to achieve, nonexistence 2. assumed as place of perfection 3. place where humankind's happiness is fulfilled 4. in theology, this is like paradise, el dorado, heaven 5. in terms of war, it is peace and order