Tuesday, September 18, 2012

BLOG #2


                                    Utopia and Dystopia

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/utopia?s=t


According to the Dictionary Reference “Utopia is an ideal place or state or any visionary system of political or social perfection”. It has to do more with fiction than reality, because all we know there is not such a thing as perfect as they’re saying. In this world where we live, perfection does not exist, is definitively something unreal or just fictitious. I believe that in the struggling of trying to find perfection in laws or society, we make things even more difficult and hard to reach. So I can say that utopia is a nonexistent place that just exists in our heads, because we’ll never going to reach or get perfect laws that make perfect places. Laws in our society are always going to be imperfect, because it can contribute to a benefit for some people and at the same time, it may impede the process of improvement for some other people. So our society will never approach to the perfection or to a visionary system of political or social perfection, it just exists in science fiction.
On the contrary, according to the same source “Dystopia is a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding”. It’s the opposite of Utopia, and I believe that is more likely to be the world where we live. In our society there are not perfect places with perfect laws. Misery, oppression, disease, etc., we find them around the corner. As I said before, laws tend to go side by side, beneficing some part of the people, and prejudicing and harming some other people. Thus I believe that the system that we have in laws and society will never change. People will always try to take advantage of the laws and benefit themselves with everything, leaving aside the fact that we live in the same world and making an unequal world with misery and poverty for the majority of the population and joy and wealth for the minority of the population. 

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