There are Many Solutions: Practical Utopian Thought

Even within a global Vision, Utopian thought doesn't require application on a global scale to be valuable.

Nearly every Human institution has devised for itself some sort of statement of purpose or mission. They serve a specific function and often hold true to a guiding philosophy. This can even apply to more personal institutions, like a marriage or religion. Yet when it comes to a specific plan for civilization the general consensus seems to be that providence and happenstance are to determine our destination. Hope for something better to come our way has, until now, sufficed.

Of course Hope is a beautiful thing. Yet if you hope to win the lottery without ever buying the ticket, you might spend your Life unfulfilled.

Even so, any guiding plan aimed at uplifting the collective Human condition and fulfilling

a greater hope is often viewed, at best, suspiciously. Philosophies of change usually stick to spiritual realities or risk being branded as something born of ill-intent and control. Because of this, our collective purpose has become vastly disassociated from our true Human nature and actual needs. Purpose is now drriven by the system itself. Society is geared to serve the material gains of coroporations and bureaucracies above the value of any individual. Thus, by and large, Humanity waits and hopes and dreams, all the while continuing to give their Life-energy to feed the drive of the greater machine instead of the passions of the soul.

There is no doubt that Humanity wants to experience a better world.  And certainly, there is a great longing for the system to truly function on behalf of the best possible life for All. It only makes sense that we come to a place where Utopia is consciously chosen as the common destination, and a plan of intentional steps is laid to get there.

Yes, we understand that Utopia literally means "not a place,” yet that doesn't automatically make it a synonym for the unobtainable. As with everything, it matters how you look at it.

Consider that because Utopia is the best circumstance one can perceive – the Highest Ideal imaginable – it seems to require transcendence of the very adversities, oppositions, and extremes which appear inherent to the material condition. The logic then follows with the assertion that Utopia cannot exist.

Yet action is commonly motivated by fulfilling a far-reaching ideal. And we’re not speaking of the proverbial carrot on a stick. We’re speaking of taking aim at a goal, and providing the energy to cross the distance and bring the trajectory to bull’s-eye.

Consciously unfolding society through a succession of stages to achieve an ideal is the same standard of approach to an individual’s process of self-development. With an ideal in mind, a plan is made and the work begun. Why is it any different for the collective body?

In the same way we can approach our own Inner Transformation as a mystery to be solved through a process and system, so to can the mysteries of civilization be solved so as to arrive at the Ultimate Frontier of expression.

Then, there is only one question – what is our ideal? If we are being practical and subjective in our approach the answer would have to be that which was already stated, “The best possible life for All,” and nothing more specific than that. We each need what is sufficient and essential to achieve what is best for us. Only then can Utopia become the common denominator for a truly global culture.

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