Do you have a clear vision for a Perfect World?

Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one

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“Visualize, No Liberals”.

I don’t. The world is so diverse and filled with so many deeply-held viewpoints that are often diametrically opposed to each other that it seems to be impossible to optimize the experiences of life for everyone. I’m hardly a relativist, but what’s a “perfect world” for one, may be hell for another. For instance, I would hate to live in John Lennon’s perfect world. I like my possessions, and I like my country (as well as other countries). I’m sure that there are plenty of people who would hate to live in my idea of a perfect world, too, if I had one.

I don’t necessarily think that we need a perfect world anyway. It would be boring. Humans thrive on adversity. Or coming up with ways to overcome it, at least.

My vision of a perfect world is where machines and robots provide all material needs for everyone and nobody has to work for a living. That’s not to say that people won’t work. There will still be writers, musicians, artists, actors, scientists, etc., etc., but people will create and explore for the their own reward, not because they’re a slave to come corporation for their survival.

Get rid of a monetary economy, and 99% of crime will vanish overnight.

This isn’t too far fetched either. Google lenr/canr to see people experimenting with ways that people can generate electricity cleanly and essentially for free. And google 3-D printer to see experiments with machines that can “replicate” physical objects. Both of these technologies are a ways off, kind’a at the stage where the Wright Brothers are saying, “Hey Orville, we haven’t had any luck yet, but I was just thinking, if we shave a few pounds off the tail wings, and make the center wings wider, we might get this thing to fly after all.” “And I was thinking, Wilbur, that if we try using kerosene instead of fuel oil, we might get more power out of the engine too.”

As for a perfect world, well, I don’t think that’s possible, ever. There will still be crimes of passion, broken hearts, and whatnot. Utopia isn’t one of the options…

Interesting origin of Utopia—The word orignally meant no-place.
1551, from Mod.L. Utopia , lit. “nowhere,” coined by Thomas More (and used as title of his book, 1516, about an imaginary island enjoying perfect legal, social, and political systems), from Gk. ou “not” + topos “place.” Extended to “any perfect place,” 1613. Utopian originally meant “having no known location” (1609); sense of “impossibly visionary, ideal” is from 1621; as a noun meaning “visionary idealist” it is first recorded c.1873 (earlier in this sense was utopiast , 1854).”
this specific paragraph from dictionary.com

I don’t have a clear vision, no. What I do know is I’ve read too many Utopian-turned-Distopian books, so that now I’m not so sure how effectively one can exist. It seems like Utopia is this artificial environment where the government controls everything to try to create an unnatural perfection, where a few suffer for a larger sum, where happiness is valued so much that everything else gets lost, etc. All the “goodness” seems to just get taken past its benefit.

My ideal Utopia would be one where everyone’s truly free to decide things for themselves, figure themselves out, without so much external pressure/conditioning/expectations. But I don’t know how that’s possible, really… at least, I don’t see it.

Everybody six feet under. There, problem solved! No more wars, no more hunger, no worries about the environment (in fact, everyone is contributing to the environment), no more bickering.

Ah, total peace.

Wow! @DancingMind… Not often I’m impressed. You have impressed me. As in, left an impression upon me. Thank you.

I’ve often said, now here is nowhere.

@Winters. Why not?

I can’t see there is such a thing as a perfect world at least where people are concerned. It just doesn’t work that way. We are who we are because we had to struggle for survival, for everything since the very beginning. If there was no need to struggle, what would we do? It would get old really quick.

@DancingMind – I used to be a die-hard Libertarian and supported your idea of utopia: ”...where everyone’s truly free to decide things for themselves…” That’s analogous to the Libertarian agenda with minimal laws and regulations and everyone’s free to live their lives as they choose.

I kind’a still am a Libertarian at heart, but the only problem with it is that if everyone still has to work for a living for food and shelter, the poor and middle class are still slaves to our corporate overlords. You want to buy food and eat? Just sign this here contractual commitment that you’ll buy only from us from now on at whatever price we dictate in the future, all perfectly voluntary and consensual. Not much of a utopia, IMO…