Comments on: Utopia Discussion Question #1

By: Noah

Noah — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:45:03 +0000

My personal version of a utopia would be located on an island near florida, so that minimal amounts of energy would be needed for heat or air conditioning throughout the year. The rains would be plentiful, allowing all people to maintain personal gardens or livestock with which to keep themselves relatively self-sufficient. There would be a strong sense of community, in which leaders are elected by a popular vote, and all people have some degree of influence on decisions. I believe that the community would be peaceful and harmonious, but not free of conflict. Leaders would still argue, in order to stop a majority from becoming too powerful, and taking too much control over the citizens of the utopia.

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:31:39 +0000

My personal utopia would be a place of comfort, where each moment clings like a teeshirt in july. Days would blur into each other, a chaos of friends and time to hang out, while nights could be confined to learning at my own leisure. The world would have no need for war, because other people would be involved too heavily in their own realities. I would prefer a place where time is undefined, and questions are asked yet never answered.

By: Katie K

Katie K — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:10:59 +0000

I agree with the class collectively that a utopia should be peaceful and the ideal place to live. It should be perfect in your eyes and suited to fit your specific wants and needs. My utopia would be free of hunger, poverty, sickness, pain. Death would obviously be necessary but pain is not necessary. There would be no need to steal because everything is free. There is no currency and people work to keep society just because they want to. The evil in the world would be gone. Diversity is a necessity but handicaps and deformities would be abolished. No one would take advantage of anything they have especially the earth. Nature would be free of contaminates and the waters would be crystal clear everywhere. Homework would be optional in every class and quizzes, tests, and essays would be banned.

By: Francisco

Francisco — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:40:27 +0000

A utopia is a perfect place that has no problems and everythin gis perfect. There is no such thing as problems, It’s inhabitants live in a sort of golden age. Such place cannot exist since it is human nature for us to seek things through solving problems

By: Anika

Anika — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:03:02 +0000

I believe a utopia is a place that makes you comfortable. Whether it’s a place that allows you to tan all day on the beach, or relax in the wilderness-it’s ultimatley a place that allows you to be free from the stresses we encounter everyday. To me utopia would be a place where everyone would be equal. There wouldn’t be any pain, violence, or suffering. People would be allowed to voice their opinions and live in harmony. A utopia isn’t so much a setting as much as it is the relationships with the people around you. Of course it would be nice to sit back on the beach all day, but essentially my utopia would encompass a group of people who got along by their on free will. But a tropical beach would be nice too.

By: Damian

Damian — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:15:14 +0000

I guess it has been made pretty clear that Utopia is a society or place with no flaws. I think everyone would want to live in a world where there was no hunger,poverty,war, or injustice but like Vanessa said earlier; even perfection would get boring after a while. When I think of Utopia the book “The Giver” comes to mind. The society in the novel did everything possible to prevent problems but controlling and restricitng everyone just caused more chaos.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:49:17 +0000

My description of utopia is very much like Dan described in that it is very much like the Buddhist nirvana. To me it is a place where there is no suffering, no pains of the life that we go through every day in our mortal lives. It can also be compared to Heaven… No not the white fluffy clouds and pearly white gates that you always hear of, but more of just a perfect world where you can spend time with the people you love. A Utopia to me seems like a place that is mostly centered around you where everything in it seems perfect to your standards. It is a place to relax and to escape the suffering of life and to enjoy the simple things like nature, the little things around you and just those simple things that you enjoy.

By: Juan

Juan — Thu, 01 May 2008 02:53:09 +0000

My opinion of Utopia is that it is a place where people have there own opinion on the world. Where people just have there own ways of doing things and they won’t be judged by others. It is a place that is different from all the others place and society. My vision of Utopia is a beautiful place where it is peaceful and there are no stresses around you.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 01 May 2008 02:30:02 +0000

My Idea of a utopia is more achievable then everyones so far it would be a place were people would live in the wilderness. If people went back to the older days of hunter gatherers then we wouldn’t have the cities and massive pollution. In that kind of society there would be classes or a society really. But if that doesn’t work then my idea of a utopia would be a place that would integrate the natural environment with a city environment.

By: Mary H

Mary H — Thu, 01 May 2008 02:07:07 +0000

A utopia must be, above all, two things: perfect, as is mentioned above, and unattainable. For a utopia to exist, all desire has to cease. If there is desire, people are in want, which means the world is no longer perfect, and thus, no longer a utopia. Since desire cannot be extinguished, utopias cannot exist. In addition, part of the implication of the word “utopia” is that it is present only in the imagination. For example, all of the responses above describing “perfect” places are, essentially, dreams that are quite obviously never going to be realized.