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Perfection . Just the word itself makes us curious. It’s something that no one has ever achieved, but we all strive for it whether we acknowledge it or not. No one strives to be mediocre or unsuccessful. Everywhere we look, we are pushed to “do our best” and “climb to the top”. But the word also makes us cautious and a bit hesitant because, although we are told things like "Practice makes perfect", we are also told that there is no such thing as perfection. Confusing, right? Like c’mon society make up your mind! To the majority of us though, the reality is that there is no such thing as a perfect anything. And because this is engraved in our minds is one of the major reasons why many of us believe that a utopia cannot be achieved. It is said that no one has achieved perfection, but just because no one has achieved it, who says it is impossible? The answer is probably everyone around us. But why is it that we think this way? Because someone said so? Everything we kno...

After reading “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” written by Ursula K. Le Guin my idea of a possible utopia changed. In this story, Ursula describes Omelas as a place where the environment is beautiful and everybody is happy. At first I thought what she was describing a place that was in Canada, those Canadians are very jolly people. All stereotypes aside it seemed like this place had everything figured out. They didn’t have a ruler, police, war, slavery, a competitive economic system, nor even a lot of rules. “Yet I repeat that these were not simple folk, not dulcet shepherds, noble savages, bland utopians. They were not less complex than us” (pg. 1). These people weren’t anything special they were just like you and me. The only difference is that we have a lot of bad habits such as procrastination, being envious of others, stealing, murder, and the worst of all picking your nose. You may think these people have better morals than us because they choose a tissue over a finger, but ...

Watch this if you want I guess The idea of a self induced "high", is largely associated with the desire to escape reality. A reality that is filled with depression, desire, and desperation. A reality which many people, often on a regular basis, chose to escape through their individual poison of choice. The reason for this escape is tied to each individual. The end goal of complete euphoria, and mentally being exactly where you strive to be, being accomplished all the time throughout life, is the ideal utopia for an individual. Utopian societies can only be perfect in the eyes of the individual. Each individuals idea of the perfect existence, is the only important way to create a utopia for that individual. A utopia could never exist on a universal scale. The laws of physics make it impossible to create a universal Utopia. For every action, there must be a reaction, and the aw of the conservation of energy. If there were never the need for reactions, and if there was no ...

Many people have different ideas and opinions as to what a Utopia is. To me, a utopia is an organized society in which there is no crime, there is financial stability as well as equal treatment and opportunity amongst everyone. For this to happen, every member of the Utopian society must be on the same page. Every member of the society must also be willing to work for the greater good of all and not personal benefit. There can be no social status or hierarchy. Everyone should be willing to share. A community that falls under these requirements perfectly is the community of Twin Oaks. Located in Virginia, Twin Oaks is a closed community, home to around 100 residents. Here, there is a shared economy where residents get an allowance and they all work for one another. Everyone in this community has access to all the same resources including food, shelter, and a great education. This sounds great and all, but if this place is so perfect, why do more people not live here? Why do approx...

Twins Oaks is a community in Virginia that is considered a utopia because of how the community lives by their own set of rules. Their rules have similarities to what we picture as the perfect world. In Twin Oaks, you don’t see crime because the existence of poverty has been eliminated. “That’s great!” you say, “No poverty, pack your bags we’re going to Virginia”. Hold the phone you, eager optimist. Let me tell you about some more of the positives and then the not so positive. Twin Oaks, Virginia So, let’s get through the positives, Twin Oaks has a government that rotates consistently so the likelihood of a politician being corrupt is lowered. Twin Oaks has a stable economy because they are not completely reliant on the United States economy. Also, economically the residents end up pooling some of their money for the betterment of the community. The community is very sexually open minded, what I mean is they are accepting of LGBTQ members and don’t reject their sexuality. The ...

Noah's Arc with all the animals     The story “Noah and the Ark” written by Jonathan Goldstein is a more comedic version of the biblical story Noah’s Ark. Goldstein depicts Noah as a disgruntled old man who verbally and physically abuses his three sons. He used this form of tough love to prepare them for the righteousness and hardships that life had for them. The world has changed for the worse in Noah's eyes. He does things the old-fashioned way, and he believes that people should endure hard labor, while the youth today have become lackadaisical. He found the new generation to be lazy because they only worked two days a week and he thought the way they lived was “ass-backwards and off the track” (Goldstein pg. 4). It is as if in today's time an old man walked up to a group of hipsters in a local Starbucks. I could imagine taking my grandfather to Starbucks it would consist of a lot of confusion and me taking a couple of Advil. Noah ...

Utopia is defined by Dictionary.com as “an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc”. When I hear the word utopia I think of a place where everything is perfect, there is no violence, no environmental issues or financial struggles and especially no spiders, I can’t stand those creepy creatures. Anyway, in this place there is just peace and serenity, but everyone has their own idea of what a utopian city would be like. In fact, throughout history there have been plans, and attempts to create utopian cities. One of which being Germania which was the planned capital of the Nazis. Hitler had a plan to turn Berlin into the Nazis’ futuristic capital. He put his architect Albert Speer in charge of creating the city. It would of had a stadium that could hold up to about 400,000 people, and a grand hall which would have been the largest enclosed space in the world being able to hold about 180,000 peo...