Today’s Fantasy; Tomorrow’s Utopia

Yes, fantasies ARE yearnings for a better life. I agree wholeheartedly in all that you have shared. It is a shame that our "world" has been taken over by the greed, avarice, hate and control of people who have come to "take from it" rather than "give back"(or pay forward in ways).



I think that is why so many, like myself, you and other writers and thinkers and dreamers write about worlds that are peaceful; we HAVE IT in our hearts and it makes us content to live within the political and economic structure that we find ourselves in...we are creating "inner worlds" in order to live in...THAT is not a fantasy but an escape from the world as we know it.

Please don't say you shouldn't have commented. All you have said, unfortunately, is completely true. And as you reminded yourself, these are fantasies and so I am going back into my shell. Goodbye world. And oh I will peek out every now and then to see how you are doing.

There is a point in Richard Bach's book "One" where he says something like : "What mankind does today for war, it will do for fun someday, like flying warplanes". Your hateless world and travel free fantasies reminded me of that. Yup, the one on saying no to animal products is a great one too.



I am not too sure about the equal distribution of wealth, though. A section of mankind has and for some reason, all of our own, it didn't seem to work. Unless it gets a revived wave of acceptance or a different model for implementation. One of the reasons probably, is, after a certain limit, equality is a "mind" thing and perhaps, an illusory pursuit. The wealth might be distributed "arithmetically" equal, but our minds either seek more or crib at the lack of luxury or find equality plain boring or a certain section starts getting jealous at the other. It is also known to cause stagnation in the pursuit of quality/excellence and stifle innovation. The point on quality might be arguable because some countries have had excellent space exploration programmes during a Marxist regime. But the fighting for the bread when it collapsed was an indication of resentment on forced equality. Have you read "Lenin's Tomb" a Pulitzer book by David Remnick ? It is an excellent account of the few weeks when the shutters came down on communism in Russia. But I should definitely give points that Marxism had some great principles in the ideology. When it gets to instiutionalising it or making it nationwide, it depends on the humans and their minds at work. We botch up a lot as a society even as we succeed as individuals.



May be we should have Marxism - Part 2 that builds on it merits and plugs its implementation demerits.



I would rather fantasize on a world where people give away more (and frequently) voluntarily out of compassion and love for the fellowmen. I also believe in "equality of access to opportunity" to work and create wealth and a more fair treatment sans the prejudices of race and other silly dividing lines. For the ones who plenty, if they have earned it righteously by hard sweat, it's their entitlement. They do have an unstated duty to treat fairly and compensate righteously others who contributed to their wealth-building journey like employees. and other stakeholders.



After an X amount of wealth, any amount of incremental wealth does not create incremental happiness because there is an imbalance being created somewhere else in your life, may be family, may be disease from a wayward lifestyle etc. It's an irony, man spends all his health to earn wealth and then spends wealth to earn health back. :-) After a while, the pursuit of equality should translate to a pursuit of "equanimity". An equanimity that retains your drive for excellence, but keeps you contented about the gross personal benefits of that drive.



Oops, fantasies shouldn't be analysed, they should be valued for their purity, beauty and sheer freedom from counter-fantasies. So I shouldn't have written this comment, LOL.