Little things like the common cold can stay, but cancer and other serious diseases will be eradicated. This can be possible if everyone has a good heart.ĭaniel: Instead of going to school to pursue an opportunity to make money, everyone just goes for the sake of learning, an opportunity to be himself and pursue a higher level of thinking. Everyone should be able to visit other countries without visas. No families will be separated because they are across the border in another country. Everyone’s house will have a compost bin and a garden. When it rains, the clouds shouldn’t be all gloomy, and there will be no pollution or acid rain. This is my unicorn and rainbow-like utopia.Īnjali: Everyone will keep their front doors open to let in the fresh air. Why? I don’t understand and I want it to stop. Time and again I would see them in pain, and then in the end I lose them to cancer. But my grandpa, grandma and uncle were selfless people who had a hard life. People always tell me that good things will happen to good people, and bad things to bad. Every time, I feel a little more alone, and a little more like life sucks. I’ve dealt with so many deaths of family members in the past 4 years. Instead of one long and boring retirement at the end of our lives, why not enjoy mini-retirements throughout our lives?Īmanda: My utopia would be one with no death. Why is it that people find it normal to slave away all their lives for a minuscule reward in the end? Why is it that wanting to enjoy life and take breaks is frowned upon? We have followed the same pattern for centuries, but it is time for a change. Jesse: My utopia is a world where the rat race no longer exists. I imagine a world where sicknesses are cured by love and the desire to live. I imagine a world where numbers don’t define us, and where everyone is free to roam without holding a mask (or several) in front of his or her face. I imagine a feeling of love and welcoming no matter who we are or where we go. Nazrin: I imagine a world without greed, hunger, thirst, violence, but with subtle pains that make our happy moments even more valuable and precious. Below are excerpts from their answers, one of which defines utopia as “a world with the perfect amount of imperfection.” I hope these responses prod readers to dream up their own utopias. I recently posed this question to a freshman humanities class and gave the students 10 minutes to write responses. That’s why I’ve been asking smart people, “What’s your utopia?” See the responses of Sabine Hossenfelder, Stephen Wolfram, Scott Aaronson, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Sheldon Solomon and Robin Hanson. All progress begins with such wishful thinking. Imagine a really good world, and imagine how we can get there. Even if you doubt your utopia is attainable, it can serve as a useful thought experiment. As his run for the Presidency wound down, Bernie Sanders griped, “There is nothing we’ve said in our campaign that is pie-in-the-sky or utopian.” My call for an end to war is often derided as utopian.īut everyone, it seems to me, should envision an ideal world, one much better than ours. If someone calls you or your idea “utopian,” they usually mean it as an insult, a synonym for naïve and unrealistic.
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