Utopia

From metawiki
The Paradox of Utopia by Microsoft Designer AI

Utopian fantasies always envision the society of the future, where humanity has fully adopted the ideology being advocated and all of our problems have been solved.

"Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?" -Margaret Atwood

The desire to pursue these ends directly instead of through evolution and incremental change has been the cause of the biggest genocides in history. So metaculture will take that lesson as learned and avoid putting forth any particular vision of what form the society of the future should take.

Instead, it simply advocates for new incentive structures based around the pursuit of happiness over money, science over superstition, and cooperation over competition. The only goal is progress. Where this leads humanity is for the future to reveal.

Utopian Videos

There is a ton of Jordan Peterson content that you get if you search YouTube for philosophy related to utopia. In this case he is on the right side of the issue. But do watch someone else, anyone else really. There as so many brilliant thinkers who create content it's insane to give this man all of the traffic, not to mention what clicking on those videos will do to your algorithm.

Utopianism philosophy and the search for a perfect world


Why Utopias Are Evil


Why we would be happier without Utopia


Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed is one of the all-time greatest science fiction novels exploring the concept of utopia. It attempts to describe a "utopian" society based on anarchist principles. It is unique among utopian novels in that it doesn't propose a static society, but one that constantly undergoes incremental revolution and self-correction to ensure freedom from rigid modes of thought. The concept of an ideal society as being one that consciously evolves and improves itself is a significant influence on the perspective of this wiki, and that's why this book is one of the few fiction books on the top 100 reading list.

Freedom is Constant Revolution - The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin


The TV series Utopia is one of the most jarring illustrations of the extremism that utopian visions can enable in the name of the "greater good." Warning: it is extremely violent and disturbing! Full series playlist.

Utopia (UK) Season 1

Utopian Music

It's a lot easier for music and art to promote the idea of utopia since they aren't the ones that have to figure out how to make it work.

John Lennon - Imagine


Kermit the Frog - Rainbow Connection


Bob Marley - Zion Train