Utopian Society

The Inevitable Demise of a Utopia

“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 twentieth century.” -Dennis Prager

A utopia is a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions. Usually an impractical scheme for social improvement and for the most part, an imaginary and remote setting. Although a utopia would be an ideal place to live, the state of a utopia is nothing besides unattainable and practically impossible. the desire to be perfect burdens many people and ironically dooms them to unhappiness.

In a perfect world, everybody would have the privilege of doing anything as they please unfortunately, in the real world even if that was attainable, that would be very dangerous. One person’s turmoil might amuse somebody else. Unfortunately in this modern world, a person or a group of people could interpret someone else or another nation/race’s downfall as ‘perfect’. “Every once in a while, a proud little community will sprout up just to let the world know how a utopia should run. With chins raised almost as high as ideals, the community marches forth to be an example of perfection. But in most cases all that harmonious marching gets tripped up pretty quickly” (4 utopian communities that didn't pan out). This article shows that pursuing a utopia is useless because the negative outcome is inevitable. This is important in order to understand a utopia’s demise and to demonstrate how and why and utopia always and will always fail. Therefore, utopian societies never and will never “pan

Some people might be firm believers in such a conflictless haven. The article “want to escape the modern world? 9 ‘utopias’ that really exist” stated “but the impossibility of perfection does not absolve us from the path of pursuing a more perfect union.” another way of viewing this is that the difficulty of achieving a utopia is obvious however we should attempt to achieve such a haven. While there may be some truth to this argument it does not acknowledge the fact that it is unachievable due to the diversity of human opinion of perfect. Despite the fact that (want to escape the perfect world? 9 ‘utopias that really exist)’s ideas that the pursuit of perfection is possible deserves some merit, it is clearly not true that perfection is not remotely