Utopia is non-fictional and is also non-existent. The roster of minds: Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, More, Heidegger, Marx, may have brought us to our present regardless to say that our previous decisions brought us to where we are right now as rational individuals. While in the present, we simultaneously loathe utopia and cloak ourselves with what is at hand, for we fear what had happened in the history of man that evoked neurosis and nihilism so as to realise one man's kind of utopia.
I believe in my utopia. I know it exists in me. I desire a society wherein everyone thinks alike. However, if everyone thinks alike then it closes the possibility of alternatives. This is what I fear. I believe in my utopia but I do not want it to happen. My utopia is mine alone. I would never impose my kind of utopia. The Other is also a rationale individual capable of his or her own utopia. If one takes that away from the Other and impose what the self thinks is "good" that is to say one kind of utopia, it is as much as saying they are stupid morons without the capacity to think, which dehumanises the Other. This makes the self capable of doing the worst thing possible. To take away the life of the Other is the only way to have utopia in a world of million utopias. Make everyone like-minded, annihilate unbelievers.
Multiply Anything to Zero
We are living in a world where choice is limited to black and white. That one plus one is two. It is similar to multiplying a great value to zero. However, there is not one answer to everything. This is what I am going against. This is not my utopia. Plato said principles must be clear cut. Contra Plato, it does not have to consist only of simple, clear cut dichotomies where we are restricted of two possibilities. A society that acknowledges, accommodates and recognises without necessarily accepting the Other creates my utopia - a society that have room for different truths; a society that is neither just black nor white.
Imaginary alternatives must not escape the Self. Nonetheless, the Self must continue to strive for alternatives and must live in a world of alternatives. Discourse poses alternatives to and for the Self, it is a constant battle to cease the end of utopia - because the end of utopia marks the end of alternatives. One should keep reminding himself or herself that there exists, as a minimum, in man's deepest thoughts a realm that is possible. In the mind only perhaps, all kinds of institutional variations and re-combinations seem thinkable.
