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This-essay is a7807175.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %UTOPIAN STAGNATION 780717 People seeking to portray a utopian society commonly envision a state of affairs, rather than a process which is bringing to pass previously unimaginable perceptions, assumptions, languages, means of communicating, ways of structuring relationships, social structures, discoveries, inventions, etc. Utopian visionaries rarely focus upon process. Yet the essence of life is process, not arrival. When process stops, life ends. Fulfillment is found in process, not in arrival and staying. When fulfillment is envisioned in terms of an ideal state of affairs, growth is inhibited---for growth involves change. Utopian visions stumble upon the impossibility of anticipating the miracles which bring the changes which are essential to human fulfillment. The fulfillment for which we yearn comes to pass only through miracles--- events which are so unbelievable that they cannot be envisioned before they come to pass. The utopias for which we yearn are so unbelievable that they cannot be envisioned before they come to pass through miraculous events. What we envision tends to be more fixed in nature than is any reality which will occasion fulfillment. Efforts to realize our utopian visions thus tend to promote incipient conservatism, rather than new beings through the shaking of the foundations of our past. Utopian visions occasion goals towards which people strive through deliberate planning and systematic action. Since the utopian visions do not closely correspond to present situations---in fact represent major departures from present conditions---a major effort is involved in seeking to fulfill the utopian vision. Success thus depends upon a sustained effort---which is possible only on the basis of a sustained vision and a stable plan. Thus utopian visions occasion conservatism in the name of fulfilling a visionary plan. The effort to transcend the imperfections of the present social order---generate tendencies to stabilize visions and social structure---in order to occasion conformity to a utopian vision which earlier leaders had. The younger generation regards such conservative efforts to reach old utopian goals---as utopian stagnation and seeks new visions of a social structure which would assure human fulfillment. We need to learn to accept fulfillment in the processes of our changing relationships, not in any ideal set of relationships. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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