Utopia is defined as a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government and social conditions (merriam-webster.com). Utopia is a mindset that people are conditioned to believe is achievable, when in reality it is not. In a utopian society, when people believe they have achieved idealized perfection, there will still be things or people that make the society imperfect. “Every utopia faces the same problem: what to do with the people who don't fit in?” (Margaret Atwood, a writer, said this on August 24, 2003). This is the biggest problem in trying to create a utopian society. We live in a diverse world and throughout history we have tried to make diversity acceptable. Having a utopian society where all people have to agree on everything and act the same defeats the entire purpose of what we have worked for as a society in terms of acceptance. Utopia is imaginary and is said to be a perfect place, but there is no shared idea of perfection, so society continues to strive for a utopian society which is not achievable and as a society we are lazy. Some people describe utopia as a real and achievable place or mindset, and I don't agree with that. Utopia is completely imaginary. There is no perfect world where everyone thinks or feels the same way about everything, because everyone is highly opinionated when it comes to certain topics and people agree and disagree on everything. There are no two people in the world who agree on every single thing. When we were giving our last seminar on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies, Frank pointed out that utopia would be achievable if you destroyed society and isolated all people. into groups of likes and dislikes so that each of the groups agreed. …half a sheet……n, but it takes character and good nature to hold it back” (Thomas More, Utopia). What this quote implies is that it's not important to just be pretty, you have to have a great personality to be "perfect". As a society, we want everything to be perfect and for there to be no problems, but this is not possible due to the problems we face. You can't have a perfect government where no one makes bad decisions, or a perfect economy where there are no underclasses and everyone has money, or a world where everyone treats everyone else the same and believes the same things. We aim for perfection without even knowing what it is. If we continue to make changes that don't need to be made and spend money and use leadership in the wrong way, we will be even further from perfect because it is a waste of power and money..
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