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The Garden of Eden, or heaven two utopias or fantasies. Heaven was created be our ideal place of comfort and stability. We wouldn’t have to worry about any problems around us because that will ruin the point of utopia. Google’s definition of utopia is “an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.” I personally agree with the idea of utopia being almost like heaven. I see it as everybody being content with life, everybody has their place and there aren’t any misfits. When everybody has a place and purpose a lot of problems that we tend to face every day dwindle down to a smaller number. Also, the comparison to the Garden of Eden and utopia has stuck to me and isn’t going away. As many may know, the Garden of Eden was where Adam and Eve were when they ate the forbidden fruit and were punished for it afterwards as a result of their behavior. 

For a long Heaven and still is the place everybody wants to go. The worry free, relaxed perception we have in our head about heaven is the ideal utopia. Everything is perfect and everyone is happy. It’s like an end of the world party! God apparently has everyone’s back and we don’t feel the need to need anything. A life where we don’t have the need to want things is when we can compare to heaven. We use common sayings every day such as “oh my god, my bed feels like heaven”. Heaven is arguably one of the best places ever. To feel like “Heaven” must feel like an extraterrestrial experience.


The Garden of Eden was the garden which held the forbidden fruit that they were both told not to eat by god. God created everything in that first week’s span and was done in 7 days. Monday through Saturday we have our days to do what we do and then we have Sunday. Sunday is the designated day that we rest on, there was a system that God made that he wanted done exactly his way. Adam and Eve eventually ate the fruit and that disrupted the utopian idea. We now have a world of sin thanks to Adam and Eve, the first humans on Earth. There may be no hope at all for a utopian society because of the world we live in today. Without sin, the world cannot function properly. No crime, no bad doing or wants? Sounds too good to be true. The world we live in today it is almost impossible to have a perfect society because of the thinking process of the negative people around us.

In 2013, we were introduced to an alternate way of approaching a shot at a utopian society. The Purge introduces us to the first ever “purge” day that is annually sanctioned and all crime is legal. They clear the streets of all medical help, police officers, and other help you could ask for on the street. People steal, kill, and whatever else they do to get off their chest. They expect the crime rates to reduce their number substantially but honestly how much do they think it’s going to go down? It can magically just go down because one day out the year crime is legal. It may drop a little but not to the point where they need to have an annual purge. I don’t think they should have the purge at all but if they are to have it have it at least every 3 years or 5 years. Every year someone is losing family for a selfish holiday made by the government to legalize the wrong doing they want to do. 

As we choose our ideal utopia, we must consider other people’s idea of utopia along with ours. It won’t be a perfect world if everyone isn’t happy, right? We must take others feelings into consideration as we accumulate and gather the broad ideas and thoughts of a utopia as it is only right. If we don’t see what we can agree on them nothing will ever be perfect as defined. Someone else will have their own idea and we have ours and nothing will ever get solved because everybody won’t be on the same page. So you sit back and think about what you get out the word utopia and what your perfect society is. 

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