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Submitted by bialutenki on April 17, 2007
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It's a Utopia?
For many hundreds of years the prophetic vision of the good society slumbered. Until that crucial period in Western history beginning with the Renaissance, when the seed of rational and theoretical thought, made its way from Greece into the soil of Europe and began to sprout.. At this point, two trends of Western civilization were joined: the prophetic version of the good society as a goal of history, and the Greek faith in reason and science. The result was that the idea of utopia was born again, the idea that man was capable of altering himself, and of building a new world populated by a just, rational society of men, a world in which justice, love, and solidarity would be realized. Each era, the Renaissance, the English Revolution, the Age of Enlightenment, and the nineteenth century created its own utopia.
Each generation is a utopia in standards of living; however America is the grand standard of all, the master in luxury, the promise land, and a place of superiority to other countries. The standards of living keep changing and with each generation come new discoveries. To the previous generations and to the population living in this country lets say fifty years ago and still among the living today our modern world is a utopia to them. To us however, the current population or the new generation, it's something taken for granted, something that is not a utopia but we are aiming at improving our living standards and leaping into the future by using technology. These living standards are explored and illustrated in a novel by Arthur C. Clarke titled, Childhood's End. In the novel everyone was guaranteed a house, or rather owned one or more, and could travel anywhere around the world within 24 hours. To me this sounds like a utopia, but now if we were the ones living in luxuries as such today would we consider it a utopia? If we took a peek into the future or simply travel into the future and end up in a world as described by Clarke,...
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