What is utopia?
What is the need for an ideal world? Is utopia even achievable? The great advances in science and technology has created a world awash in wealth and material goods but the problem of poverty, disease and early death still plague a large part of the Earth's population. It is as if all of medical and agrigultural advances don't exist in the face of famine and deprivation and disease. Is utopia or the ideal world something that merely exists on paper or even just in the minds of a few people? Do we even care that many people live like animals?
Is it possible at all for this planet to become an ideal place to live for future generations? I would like to think that we can rise above our own sense of small-minded greatness and become truly universal in thought and desire. When one looks around and sees all the great innovations that make life easier and easier to live, one must also see what cannot be seen: scenes which are hidden from the everyday reality of malls and buildings and offices. It is only when some great calamity befalls us that we remember our own precarious mortality. We are not so invincible as we believe. Our six-pack abs are no defense when a tsunami strikes or a volcano spews forth its breath of sulfur and destruction or a hurricane like Katrina reminds us how nature makes puny the greatest of the great.
I believe that Utopia is possible, that the ideal world can be carved from the indifference of those who lead the charge for more wealth and consumerism. I believe that within the hearts of those who suffer beats the desire to make that which does not exist: a reality as tangible and as palpable as the pangs of hunger that seeks to destroy a spirit that cannot be destroyed.
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