The real reason "mankind" might not ever embrace Utopia is that no two people have exactly the same definition of what it is.
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- For the last thirty years or so I’ve been a lecturer, coach, novelist and television writer. For the last forty years I’ve been involved variously in the martial arts, and for all my life I’ve studied and enjoyed yoga. Not that I worked at it as hard and honestly as I should have—I’d be a combination of BKS Iyengar and Bruce Lee if I had. After publishing about three million words of science fiction (including the New York Times bestsellers The Legacy of Heorot and The Cestus Deception) and having about twenty hours of produced television shows (including The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Andromeda, and Stargate, as well as four episodes of the immortal Baywatch), I’ve got opinions on the writing life. After earning black belts in Judo and Karate, and practicing the Indonesian art of Pentjak Silat Serak for the last fifteen, well, I have some opinions there, as well. And having struggled to live consciously since childhood...well, those opinions are probably strongest of all.
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The real reason Utopia will never see the light of day is it's contingent on self-satisfaction. Utopia, or the best of all worlds, is for me the complete gratification of my self-interests. The same is true for everyone else. Since facets of all these innumerable self-interests doubtless clash, no solution that enables everyone to obtain all they need or desire is possible. The "best" that's feasible is something approximating Utopia for some subset (ruler, aristocracy, majority, what-have-you) of the whole, or a modulus vivendi that gives something to everyone, but also denies Utopia to all.
Ethiopian_Infidel
Also, utopia tends to be greatly oversimplified compared to any society that humans would actually invent.
Just for the fun of it: Weirdtopia.
thank you
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