When it comes to what I describe as a perfect world, I envision a place with no stress, expectations, or obligations. I imagine a world with the financial freedom to enjoy life without living paycheck to paycheck. No money, problems, or bad circumstances. While some may agree with me, others may have their own definitions of what they consider to be a utopia. Perhaps some individuals may like the fact that we live in a society where we must work hard for the things we want in life, even if that means practically being a slave to society. I feel that my version of a utopia would result in lowered stress, happiness, and better ability to enjoy life due to the positivity being implemented into society. However, since we are not all the …show more content…
One example of the obligations I am talking about is the fact that we are legally forced to go to school from the ages of around 5, up until the age of 16 or 17 when we can opt to drop out. However, if we made the decision to drop out, that would mean decreasing our chances of a good quality future. Beyond school, if we choose not to work, we also would not have the means to live a satisfying life because we would end up without essential needs such as food, water, shelter, and material items that we may enjoy. Consequently, it appears we are trapped in a cycle of "damned if I do, damned if I don't," in the sense that we may not be able to enjoy life if we are working too hard, but we also won't be able to enjoy life (with the way society is currently set up) if we choose not to complete our schooling and seek out careers that pay well. Overall, my point is that it would be lovely to live in a world where we would always be provided with the things we need or want in life without the stresses of having to work hard for said …show more content…
No murders, no world hunger, no suffering. No anxiety over the future and what may happen to you, no more "what if's." Only a world where everyone lives together peacefully, without any judgment or violence. Crime rates currently seem to be rising and rising all over the world, and I wish more than anything that there were some way to combat all of the negative going on in the world and transform it into positive. I would love to see more of an emphasis on protecting mental health and more funding for mental health programs, in an attempt to help those who are suffering from traumatic events in their lives. A lot of criminals also struggle with severe psychological disorders, and if it were made mandatory that they seek psychological help, that could potentially help the world as
Also if everything is just handed to you and you all get the same of everything you have nothing to take pride in or anything to work for. Without Utopian Societies we learn how to work hard for the thing we want, how to achieve goals, how to express ourselves, and how to be thankful for what we are given without being told to or without having to we get to do it all on our. Even in a Utopia which is suppose to be a perfect community not everything is going to be perfect there is going to be something that goes wrong in it and we are still going to make mistakes. A Utopia is impossible because nothing is
A utopia sounds like a wonderful thing. The Oxford English Dictionary defines “utopia” as an “imagined or hypothetical place, system, or state of existence in which everything is perfect, esp. in respect of social structure, laws, and politics.” (OED, 2015, entry 2) But what happens when someone tries to bring this imagined land of perfection into reality? Both in fictional literature and in real life applications, utopian dreams destroy societies.
A utopia is what everyone is aiming for, but is that really what they are getting? With the hopes of a perfect society, we the people are rushing for a drastic change in the way things work without giving too much care in which direction things are changing, and that can and will cause definite issues. In the hopes to rush into a perfect world, too many people are treating government like a roulette wheel and hoping for the best, even though all odds are against them. In doing so, they are setting themselves up for a more controlled tomorrow.
“An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect,” is the definition you’d read if you searched up the word, “utopia.” Humans strive to achieve perfection- the perfect grade, a perfect family, having a perfect life, being the perfect person- to be flawless. We as humans, typically desire for what we don't have. After all, our world is not perfect at all. We face hardships, anxieties, pain, and much more.
The idea of a ‘Utopia’ is captivating to many people. Utopia is defined as a “perfect society”, where there exist no flaws between relationships, economic standards, political standards, and more. Many stories feature caricatures of utopias, such as Harrison Bergeron.
The struggle and debate for and about utopias has been going on for thousands of years. In the classic book, Brave New World, the author, Aldous Huxley, explores the aspects of happiness and stability through creating a utopia of his own. Of course, the civilization that he writes about is imperfect in many ways and the story follows an outcast in the society. In the book, Huxley shows us that true universal happiness is unattainable because to live a happy and fulfilled life with a true emotional range of feelings, essentially what it means to be human, people need to have freedom and thought. But in order to have a utopia with never ending happiness, people need stability and control. This makes a utopia an impossible
Most people believe that a utopia can be achieved without any disputes or problems but that’s wrong. A utopia is a society that is believed to be perfect while a dystopia is a total opposite. A dystopia is where everything is as bad as it can be and is often the result of an event or idea that backfired. This is important because a dystopia is usually the result of a utopia gone wrong. The human quest for perfection inevitably yields dystopian results because greediness leads to destruction, perfection takes away uniqueness, and perfection is impossible to achieve.
Although, everyone has a different idea of what a perfect society is, so everyone would disagree on how to make the perfect society. So really it is one person’s perfect society while it could be someone else’s nightmare. Even if the perfect society was created and everyone was equal eventually as people can not help but do the society would separate themselves into groups. When the society would do this they would favorite certain groups and neglect other groups needs. For example the book “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins is a book where they try and make a perfect society and the groups divide and some are praised while other groups are neglected. Creating a so called perfect society has not worked out in the fictional world, so expecting it to work in the real world is
A perfect society, nothing goes wrong, a world called a utopia. Some people think utopias can actually exist in the real world! Although, that is their opinion I do not agree with it. Just some of the reasons I believe it will never happen are that people aren’t perfect and will always make mistakes, they usually break up due to leaders wanting power, and last some of them are just wiped out by natural causes.
In a Perfect World by Trish Doller takes place in Cairo, Egypt. Caroline looked forward to spending the summer with her best friend in her boyfriend before senior year. Plans quickly changed though when her mom got offered her dream job in Cairo at a One Vision clinic. She moves to Cairo with her mother while her dad stays in Ohio to work. Caroline expects to spend her senior year trying to navigate a new city and being homesick. What she wasn't expecting was a thrilling new culture, a few new friends, a beautiful city, and a new love who challenges her in many ways. In a Perfect World mainly focuses on how love will always find its way.
Dennis Prager once said, “Although images of perfection in people’s personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies, utopian images, can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the 20th century.” (Prager Dennis, Search Quote) The meaning of this upscale quote goes to show how our generation evolves into society. In general, everyone wishes to live in a perfect world, with perfect, happy people, where no harm can be done. Each individual has their own way of wanting “a perfect society.” For example, it could be living in a world with no violence or war, and another person can think their “perfect society” would be living in a world of equality amongst our peers. In other words, this perfect world that one would want to/ think they live in is called a Utopia.
In my personal opinion, there is no feasible way to create a true utopia in a world of imperfect humans, but there are many improvements we can make to America today. Criminals will always break the laws that keep us safe and happy, greedy aristocrats will always try to amass more than their fair share of wealth, and corrupt politicians will always lie and cheat to further their own agendas, but the doesn’t mean we can’t make the world we live in better. A few of the areas that we can definitely improve in the most are education, career benefits, welfare, and criminal justice.
Every individual wants a perfect world. A world deprived of violence, judgment, or strife, in that people create their own worlds, they find their superlative way of living, the ideal thought of religion, and the ‘perfect’ government. That’s when you get a utopia, but when you flip it and all those ideas of equality and perfection it’s different and is a complete dystopia. Our world that we live in is neither, nothing is of absolute good and nothing is of absolute bad. We live in an unhinged society that keeps us going. Sex, drugs, love, consumerism, family, god, status, and society in general face relentless change and are unalike from everyone’s points of view. You can change
In a perfect utopian society everyone gets what they need because communication, understanding, and open mindedness of different ideas would be key. In order for a society to be a utopia, everyone has to be comfortable and be provided with their wants and needs and everything needs to function perfectly. In order for function and equality, people must compromise in thoughts and ideas to provide for everyone. To do that, one must have a good understanding of why others may think differently and have the ability to accept that. One of the many reasons our Earth is not a utopia is because of the competition and contradictory understandings of people, and the inability to accept other’s ideas. You do not have to believe what others believe, but respect for separate thought would make the world better. If everyone had their thoughts heard, were more sympathetic of different ideas and more capable of compromise, then there would possibly not be such gaps in social standing and humans dying from lack of basic needs while others bathe in gold.
The idea of a perfect society, or “utopia,” was first introduced in Sir Thomas More’s book Utopia, written in 1516. In the book, More described a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean through the character Raphael. On the island everything and everyone has a specific place and purpose. There is no private property, all of the houses on the island are the same; you can walk in the front door, through the house, and out the back door. All necessary items are stored in warehouses, where people only request what they need. The people on the island manufacture the items in the warehouse, everyone that can work does, which means little to no unemployment.