Utopia in the ‘modern’ mind is a perfect society, and that is our interest.

Emergent - like most ancient bodies of intricate concepts arriving from thousands of years consideration by the finest philosophers - Utopia stands digested in public mind and press as a simplistic single idea.

Sadly, it’s not actually standing, but sits out of sight, over there in the corner with its friends History, Religion, Philosophy, Socialism, Ethics …

While IM’s focus and quest is reviving Utopian thoughts, then defining and finding this proposed resting place of human effort, we aren’t blind to a utopian destination of societal stagnation, effectively civilization’s death, or even proof the concept is impossibly, unattainably, flawed.

If everything has a start and end, and the end is a death, and not only we individuals but our civilization, planet, galaxy and universe are also to die .. then to what purpose, to what point, Utopia?

To hypothesize Utopia is, like all topics comprising Incontiguo.us Magazine, to confront the meaning of existence, to question even the source of our questions, to doubt if mind sets obsessed with the rational can ever understand the unknowable, to suspect truth of our gut feeling that conscious monologue mentations are bubbles of reductionist duality-nonsense in non-physical reality.

If we see patterns in mathematically random noise, might not seeing paradox in existence’s fabric suggest another futile construct?

Achievable?

Sustaining human will amid toil’s drudgery lies a promise of lottery winnings.

Visualizing halcyon life with spoils - done less frequently with aged-impending demise - provides knee-weakening, anxiety-melting euphoria. Contemplations so pleasurable they are best avoided.

So, too, Utopia.

Vastly more improbable than lottery-winning odds lies the chance that all people might suspend obsessive greedy scrounging for just one epiphanic instant to, in unison, envisage something magical overcoming what are (all would agree in rare moments of lunatic self-honesty) lives of sheer derangement.

Sure!

When seriously beholding Utopian visions a pleasurable excitement arises and threatens, if I don’t cease forthwith, to render meaningless everything every striven for, by my or your self.

Were Utopian vision placed magically on the agendas of every corporation, council, government - and household - what steps would it include?

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