Utopia

A vision for an impossible state in which a society (a nation, a community, a company) faces no problems.

Utopia is impossible because solving problems always creates new ones — and this is a good thing. The absence of problems would mean the absence of Progress, Creativity, and Knowledge growth. Utopianism is the dangerous attempt to reach this impossible state.

Connections

• •Impossible — problems are the starting point of all Knowledge growth
• •Utopianism is the dangerous pursuit of utopia
• •Contradicts The Principle of Optimism — which says problems are solvable, not eliminable
• •The absence of problems would mean Stasis
• •Progress is an infinite succession of solved problems, not their elimination
• •Related to Essentialism — the idea of a final, perfect state