Yesterday @anniedustan replied to my post with another post and added hugely to the thought of Need of Scarcity for Abundance
Today, she came up with another great idea with a bounty where she asked for an Utopian Perspective of stackers.
I humbly took this as an opportunity to reply her in the same way as she did on my post yesterday. I am replying here for I suppose that I owe a postal reply to amazing @anniedustan and also considering the length of my reply would not fit into comment box 😄. So, without further a due, here's my reply.
My “utopia”, my perfect place, my “dream world” would be something not too way over the top like flying spaceships, or robots bringing me drinks. It would be a very quiet, calm, and peaceful place where I can actually hear my thoughts, and individuals are all treated fairly, and everyone isn’t afraid of sharing their opinions about life or society without getting bad looks from others.
I’m not saying I’d be living in a cube or anything like that. Of course the water would be always deep blue, the weather would be not too hot but occasionally cool, the skies would always have puffy clouds and bright blue skies, and the stars would shine the most brightest at night.
My “utopia” would be a place where it would be safe to walk outside in the middle of the night without having to think about something dangerous happening to you.
This perfect place where there’s no harm, the adults are relaxing, the children are playing amongst each other carefree, and music would be playing.
There would be no people living in poor conditions because everyone would be taken care of by something.
I imagine a world where pain and suffering would be abolished. To wake up every morning and not worry about meaningless things such as bills, problems, money and all materialistic things.
Death is seen as a celebration, to be released from one’s body and having the freedom to roam the earth and skies. Their friends and family would wear white to represent the freedom given to their bodily sufferings.
There would not be any form of central government/laws mainly due to everyone naturally being morally good. Everyone would be selfless to a sense in which if someone else needs help, everyone will pitch in to help them.
In my ideal world, it would be warm all year round. Not too hot and not too cold, the type of weather we call “hoodie season.”
Every village had a source of water many of them had wells but there were also lakes, waterfalls and rivers.
Humans, they did not know greed or envy, they disliked but they did not hate, no judgement was given. Everyone was friendly they greet each other one way or another, either with a kiss, a hello, or a welcoming smile.
In this place humans had a special connection with animals. Ancient tribes believed that animal spirits would help as a guidance and over time the magic connection with animals grew.
Without going to in-depth into the story, but in Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, Le Guin describes this town of Omelas where the people there are having a good time, there’s a festival going on, music is blasting throughout the neighborhoods, children are having a great time, adults are relaxing and sightseeing.
***All excerpts have been adapted directly from "Utopias & Dystopias". The study was conducted as Perspectives in Literature by Professor Belli on The OpenLab at City Tech, NY.