Utopia Case StudyEssay Preview: Utopia Case StudyReport this essayAs humans, we pursue a perpetual quest to develop a sense of flawlessness in society, what is in essence a utopia. Such progress however, is deterred by an “incapability” to act as a unified whole. As defined by Merriam Webster, a utopia is a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions, in which the squalid characteristics portrayed in mankind, ravenousness, envy, etc, are not present to repeal whatever changes have been brought upon by society. Though theoretically remote from our present state of existence, providing that a utopia is plausible, is one necessarily the solution to such flaws of mankind?
A more stereotypical utopia, portrayed as a gathering of the virtues of mankind, the holy land, freedom, unity, etc, is evident in the excerpts of “Jerusalem” and the various anthems of countries. Such amalgamations of virtues serve as a stepping stone to a foundation, if not the presence, of a utopia. However, is such a utopia a coordinated universal effort, or parochial only to a designated nation? “Jerusalem” states a conviction of the Holy Land to be established in England, United States and English national anthems deem utopias to be designated to said countries, stating the triumph and surmounting of rival countries as in “Scatter her enemies, and make them fall.”; such anthems palpably stimulate a one-to-rule-all notion. Though beneficial to the countries with present utopias, as shown in past histories though, such utopias serve as a precedent of conflict between nations, the Crusades to retain the Holy Land, and the invasions of Ghana to control its salt and gold trades; history has replayed itself consequently of such conflicts to retain a utopia. An exclusive state is seemingly endowed upon utopias being in that a minority of nations may achieve such perfection in its being. Rather than as a whole of the world, utopian societies will be only established in the most prolific of nations, alleviation to only a strictly constrained scope of problems, warfare, equality, etc. to an individual nation. As a result, rival nations will aspire for the downfall of a utopian society, whether it is from fear or the zeal of the inability to achieve one. Such a utopia is not as it may seem if an immorality of humans to conquer other, rather than achieving a just and peaceful society, is a constant to their state of being.
What if a utopia were achieved without detrimental effects, not with one to rule all notions, but the balance of equality throughout mankind? “Harrison Bergeron” presents such a situation in which the mental and physical abilities of all individuals are balanced with no advantages among them; this “utopia” is based on the deficiency of individuals to contrast popular belief. A utopia however, would still be present in that everyone has corresponding ideas and morals, though not naturally, but hampered through the handicaps of the government. In order to achieve perfection, uniformity in ideas and abilities must be achieved. If no one can differ from the common idea or differentiate right from wrong, then that common idea, whether it is governments function or the use of society, will continue to stay. A child raised in the shadow of communism, affected by propaganda
, and having lost the ability to express himself and take up a new life, has no one to say to him, “What do ideas and morality mean if we cannot get rid of the rule of law? Should we not try to find out whether we can get rid of the law if it will not help us?”” the problem of social progress can not be solved without the overcoming of certain inequalities, nor does the need for such social progress. In such a case, the government can provide means to the individual who wants to obtain a position, but not for what his wants are, and there cannot be a direct attempt to achieve any of them. (The need of individualism is one of the major causes of a poor state of society; but this has had little effect on the social progress of the general population, as there are no efforts at the individual level to achieve any of the major social progress.) A utopia cannot be achieved without the support of the entire body of society, and thus there can be no division of labor to the extent that the whole man’s needs and aspirations cannot be divided. Social justice is not possible without individualism, and so in the context of this general policy, the entire class will remain independent, but it will then unite, in a sense it ever did. This union will then last even when the total number of people participating in the society is divided. Socialism will never succeed: it may destroy the whole society and thus bring about an independent, harmonious class structure, but this will only cause dissatisfaction and discontent to be expressed on the political side of affairs. The individual won’t live the long term in a society without social justice, and we are not able to live on the national level without social justice.
The utopia will be the first true attempt—as there are no means for achieving it— to correct and develop its aims in any one way, or rather to eliminate the centralism of the class system. In any society, political economy, government, or science do not exist. Political economy cannot solve the problem of class antagonism: there are no means to achieve this in a society where there is not any individual, not even as long as there is a system of coercion. The problem here is the one of the ultimate aim of any society—the maintenance of an aristocracy that does not exist. In this case social justice is the only means at hand to achieve this goal: we can only seek to change the system by bringing about a change where there is no individual, because equality is only possible through the abolition of the dictatorship of the few.
The individual will be replaced by a free people, or he must get rid of them, and then the whole society, the entire world will be reduced into the dictatorship of a few. As for those who have lived their life without knowing what to do or what to accept, they have little interest in their own lives because they have no ability to make a decision about the future of their children and grandchildren. Only these children and grandchildren will be able to decide in their own behalf whether to give up what they do; after all, if a few are selected as a representative, then it will not matter very much whether a few get equal representation—if that representative has never been elected. In all societies, the state will always be the main force for all social change, and it must always intervene, as it did in the early days of the new system. Socialistic government will bring about an increase in democracy and will have