Utopia

I don't believe in Utopia's.

They don't make sense.

There is no such thing as a perfect world since that means a world without pain, hardship, drought, poverty, sickness, hunger, and much more.

And that doesn't exist

But then, you may tell me, that's the whole concept of a utopia.

Even though it hasn't happened yet, that doesn't mean it can't.

But I must remind you of something that is vital to everything.

That 'something' is the reason why you find joy.

That 'something' is the reason happiness exists.

That 'something' makes love possible.

If you never experience pain, hardships, drought, poverty, sickness, or hunger, you'll never appreciate when your life is good, fruitful, rich, healthy, or fulfilled.

That 'something' is balance and equality.

You can never experience true joy if you've never experienced life without it.

So basically you can never experience happiness without experiencing sorrow, pain, or suffering.

And then that's where I hit a wall.

Once I accepted that there is no way our world can be perfect, I wondered how someone could ever think that utopias could exist.

There is a truth that needs to be agreed on right now: We are not living in any sort of a utopia.

Life is not perfect.

We still groan as we turn off our alarm clocks at 5 am.

We still run out of gas.

We still lose our jobs.

All the little things, and big ones too, show us every day that we are NOT living the perfect world.

And so in order to get into that utopia, we have to rewrite everything from the beginning.

There is one big thing about dystopian societies that are classics: Big government.

Big, strong government in the country instead of the states, and sometimes it is more like a dictator with absolute power like Hitler or Napoleon.

All of that is posed as bad since apathy towards incrementalism results in leaders with that kind of sick power.

Now we have the building blocks to our "perfect" world: Small government.

Great, what's next?

Well, pollution is another big factor to cause our disgusting world to be imperfect, so I guess nowadays we're given another option.

Everyone should just get Tesla's and--wait, that doesn't make sense.

Where are we going to get that money? How can everyone save up enough to buy a Tesla?

Of course, the government can tax the people more, but then that ruins the whole 'small government' ruled utopia that we're trying to achieve.

Or maybe the government can print out more money, but then my 4.5 GPA will be lower than gas prices, and inflation will dictate the world.

You can never please everybody, that is one thing that politicians learn.

Sure, everyone tries to make their peers enjoy being in their presence, but they can't.

There are always the haters for whatever is done.

So in that case, nobody will agree one-hundred percent on how the world is run.

And if there are those that are unhappy, or naturally bitter and don't contribute to society, the perfect world doesn't exist.

Do you still not believe me? Do you still think that there is a way to achieve a perfect universe where everyone agrees on everything with no conflicts? Well then think of this.

Imagine you are using coloured pencils to draw a picture.

You are almost done before you realize that the colours don't seem like they match.

That is the point that our world is at right now. You haven't continued colouring the picture because you know that something wrong, but you don't know exactly how to fix it to make it perfect again.

You try to colour over the parts that don't make sense, but the paper isn't strong enough and a hole gets torn through it because of the force you used to make things right.

Our world's secrets cannot be coloured over, they can't be hidden and force everyone to pretend they don't exist.

You look at your picture again and think of another idea.

You start erasing everything, the good and the bad since you want to restart.

But the colours smeared all over each other, and while the majority of the colour was erased, some still remained.

Do you understand now? If you want to try to erase the ways of the world, you will have to erase everything, but then you'll realize that you can't. The world has already been damaged so much that it is impossible to start over and have everyone agree.

In order to make your drawing or world more perfect than the mess it was at first, you know that you have to erase EVERYTHING.

But some people don't want to restart.

And that's where our drawing ends.

While we try to reform our world to make it perfect, we don't realize that there are cracks and holes in it that can never be coloured over.

There is no such thing as a perfect world since that means a world without pain, hardship, drought, poverty, sickness, hunger, and much more.

And that doesn't exist.

And that's why I don't believe in Utopia's.