Bryce-topia

This week's blog post is supposed to be about what my Utopia would look like.  I've thought about this a LOT.  This question is hard.  Frustratingly hard.  I don't really even know where to begin.  How do you even begin to approach it?  The word "utopia" means no-place in Greek, and it's for a good reason.  I think there are so many things wrong with our current situation that a "perfect" world is unimaginable and beyond the consciousness of the average person, which I guess would include me.

The most important factor in determining my Utopia is determining what is wrong with our current world.  I won't go to far into detail for the sake of time (and my sanity).

I think our biggest problem  is the lack of equality in every facet of society.  All over the world, the "little guy" is being taken advantage of by powerful entities, such as corporations and authoritarian governments.  People are being disenfranchised and their rights are being taken away all the time (no I can't substantiate it, but we all know it's true).  I guess that's what I would change if I became the supreme overlord of the world.  I think hte best society would be a pluralistic one in which everyone would be equal.

What does that really mean? I couldn't begin to tell you.

There would be none of the complicated systems tying separate countries together.  Communities would be tightly knit, and people would buy, sell, and barter locally.  Most people today don't care very much for their fellow human beings.  How could a corporation in the United States be able to make decisions that destroy the lives of people in distant lands?  It's unconscionable.  In my utopia, they couldn't drain the resources of a small, impoverished South American nation because A) those international ties would no longer exist and
B) the average citizen would be outraged and demand action.  

People would respect each other and they would respect their environment.  In the past, indigenous cultures revered Mother Earth.  I think it's a concept worth reviving. 

The only theme that is concurrent throughout this post is uncertainty.  I have no idea what my perfect society would be like.  I'm way to idealistic to propose a practical system, anyways.