Why Do Utopian Societies Fail

Can a perfect society called a utopia ever be possible? My answer is no, but some people think so. A utopia is all about perfection. The way of life is perfect, and everything works out super smooth. People rarely get hurt, and everyday it‘ll seem like a constant pattern. Everything about the society also just ends up working out completely. A utopian society will rarely have problems as well, but something big in a utopian society is being protected from danger. But again, a utopia is not possible because everyone is different, and there is no way it’ll all go perfectly.

People have wondered what a perfect world would be like? Well many people have, for example, Sir Isaac Moore was the first person to write about this joyful, and excited place. Since he was the first person to write about it, he got to name it and he chose utopia. The thing is that a utopia is not possible, and that has been proven many times before.

Have you ever wondered how a utopia works or if it is even possible? Well, a utopia is a place where everything is perfect and everyone is perfect. There is peace, everybody is equal, the community provides everything you need, and nobody gets hurt. Many people have different ideas of Utopian societies. Some people think a Utopian community is possible. Others think that it is impossible. Although mankind thinks a flawless civilization is possible, a Utopian society is unachievable because there is not a perfect setting or person in this world.

A utopia to me is where we can choose what we want, we can choose who we are paired with and our names, there is no birthmoms and we can have our own children if we want, but there is surrogates. There is freedoms to certain things and those certain things are you can have gay marriages, free religion and many more. But there are some things that won’t work. It seems that it is more impossible to create a “perfect society”. Since nothing will ever be perfect. There will always be ups and downs, but that is how life is. In the future maybev there will be a utopia.

A utopia will at no time be a perfect world, but merely a dystopia in disguise. The people believe they are in a utopia; a place believed to be a paradise, where everyone lives together due to common values of the highest importance (Sreenivasan). If people could see through the blur that shows this paradise, they would see a restricted community; a dystopia. The citizen’s believe having no rights or freedoms is the correct way to live and they are getting the most they deserve. Perfection is merely a conclusion made by each person individually. Someone in control has their vision of what their perfect nation consists of and it will never match the feelings of anyone else. It is not possible to make a perfect society when equality is not possible.

Utopia would be a place where everyone cared and loved for each other. For example, no one would judge nor criticize another person. No one would fight over different things, thus the prevention of war. One would never feel threatened in their acts if nobody hated them for it.

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.

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.

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.

I don’t think it's possible to “create” a utopia because in this world people choose value individual expression over sameness. Utopia is an imagined place in which everything is perfect. People would not want to eliminate freedom and individuality. Humans beings are not perfect, thus, society can never be perfect. Some people would not follow rules because they’re told to, they would question about it. They would not like certain people making choices for them. Nowadays, people express themselves in many ways; dye their hair, get tattoos, piercings.

Do you know what’s a utopian Society? A great example of an utopian society is 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. On the other hand some people’s opinion differs ,they believe The Giver represents a better utopian community. “2BR02B” represents a better quixotic society than The Giver.

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.

Between the 1820’s and 1860’s, Americans were trying new things and promoting different ideas and ways of thinking. Once such idea is that of a utopian society. A utopian society, simple put, means a perfect society.

Every utopia needs a government that is in complete and utter control of the people. Control is power in our government, and if you have control everything runs ever smoothly.

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