V20 – Pg10
Utopia
Do you know how the word Utopia is defined?
From the British Library: No Place
Thomas More coined the word ‘utopia’ from the Greek ou-topos meaning ‘no place’ or ‘nowhere’. It was a pun – the almost identical Greek word eu-topos means ‘a good place’. So at the very heart of the word is a vital question: can a perfect world ever be realised?
So, can (a) Utopia exist? Well Malachi thinks not. The phrase I have Mal repeat in the above page is a quote from Peter Hitchens. Although I don’t generally agree with the positions he takes, he has dropped some pearls of wisdom over the years, such as the one quoted.
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Dan. B
A true utopia can never truly exist. Because in order to achieve such, we would need everything to be perfect. And perfection is something that can never be realized either. Nor would we want to. Because a perfect world would be cold and sterile.
Imperfections are what gives life beauty. Imperfections are what drives us. If you could play an instrument perfectly from the start, what point would there be in doing it repeatedly, since there is no goal to strive for. If an artist would make a perfect painting every time, they would soon lose their drive.
So since perfection is unattainable, and dare i say, undesirable; so too a true Utopia becomes unattainable.