Many view the perfect ideal of society as one with surpluss resources and no conflict. The tragedies of war, homelessness, disease, and injustice have become forgotten experiences from a more savage time.
But have you really considered what that’d be like? Sure, any average day will be good, but I doubt anyone looking back on their life would call it good – not necessarily bad, but not good. How could they have a less than perfect life in such a perfect society? Because their life story was so uneventful that you could barely call it one.
People need conflict and tragedy equally as much as safety and consistency. Have you ever tried to read a book or watch a movie with zero conflict? You get nothing from the experience other than time passing.
Now imagine an entire life of that. Conflict and our struggle against it is what creates one’s character and defines their life experience as unique from any other person’s struggles.
Life is supposed to be unique, crazy, and chaotic. The timeline of our life should be so twisted and knotted that it takes the entire eternity of our afterlife to sort it out.
But in a perfect society, everyone has the same experience: a straight line from point A to point B, with absolutely no irregularities to distinguish you from anyone else.
The Dystopian Utopia | 15 August 2020
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