Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Utopia

In his Republic, Plato constructs his own utopia not so much on the foundation of fiction and exaggeration, as Aldous Huxley does, but rather on that of philosophy and logic and speaks of how an ideal state must be ruled by Philosopher Kings in order to thrive. I would agree with Plato's approach in that everyone in a utopia should be educated and wise, although I would not go so far as to say that the leaders of the utopia should be philosopher kings, but rather polymaths. If the leaders are polymaths then they would be well versed in all fields of knowledge, allowing them to answer questions from all fields of knowledge as well, allowing them to be the wises of leaders. The leaders would most definitely not be able to work in a dimension of unlimited power, but in similar restrictions to the citizens.

In my utopia, education would be promoted as often as companies who promote their products. Autodidacticism would be considered as a hobby to citizens, and video games would not be a popular form of entertainment. Citizens would travel by the most efficient transportation means possible, by magnetic trains and hydrogen-powered cars, and everything would be recyclable, resulting in a utopia not only considering all of the people that live under it, but considering Earth's role in harboring humans. Earth's genetic variety would bloom and all the obstructions that humans have caused the earth would be washed away. Earth at last would be a clean place to inhabit and humanity would live in its' modern world without causing any environmental issues.

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