Utopia 9/2

Reading Frederick Jameson’s “The Politics of Utopia” sure did make me more
knowledgeable about the Utopian society and its’ details, but I have to admit that I highly doubt that this perfect place or island with perfect laws and perfect people will never come true in this lifetime, or even this world. The chances of that ever happening is very scarce, and unfortunately it seems impossible. No matter what we do and how hard we try, we will always have unemployment, misery, poverty, starvation and whatnot, because people today, especially Americans will never want to give up the freedoms and rights which we have gained, just so we can be equal with other countries who are suffering with problems such as poverty, unemployment and
whatnot. The part that quickly made me realize how impossible a Utopian Society would be was when Frederick Jameson spoke about the Politics of the society. Based on what he said, a Utopian Society would consist of a different type of “Political System” which is actually a non-political system. How can one have a political system where only one person sets the rules, or even worse, “technolgy” and everyone else will be happy with everything? How can a world exist where everyone will be blinded by the society they live in and just go with everything they are given?
Jameson also stated that a Utopian society consists of full employment with everyone to be happy with the life they have, a life that lacks evil which he stated that comes from money and gold. Are we all supposed to have the same amount of money and just be happy with that amount?
One major factor that made me feel uncomfortable is that in a Utopian Society, there is
only one equal and common good that we will be living for, sure it will make us all
peaceful and blinded by the outside problems, but there wouldn’t really be a point in life, a point in having a brain of our own personal decisions and choices. As one student mentioned, this Utopian Society did remind me of the movie Equilibrium. In Equilibrium, everyone was forced to take special “shots” without even questioning why and was forced to live the life that was though of by a Leader, a leader that was magically chosen without any votes. In this society, people were blinded by the real beauties of life such as love, art, music, food, clothing. Their goal in life was just to work a job that was not fun at all, eat food, take the shots, and just live until you die. But towards the end, Christian Bale who played the main character finally began to question himself and his doings, so he stopped taking those shots and began to feel love, hatred, anger, he began to read and started to live a REAL life. Even in a Utopian Society, regardless of how perfect and equal something is, someone will begin to question, or will want to change because in the end we are human beings. People will always want to be higher than someone who can make higher decisions, who makes more money to have more power and MORE rights. By living a Utopian Society, people will be deprived from their rights to live their own life where they can work hard to be and do what they truly want, and to have personal tastes. Talent would be an isolated and useless thing in life. In reality this freedom town also known as a Utopian Society would be a life that actually lacks freedom