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Throughout history, the boundaries of society have generated wars of outrage, crafted immoral injustice, fed the ravenous power hungry and massacred millions. There have been gruesome genocides where people’s aspirations to have a perfect community have been tinged with greed, murder and insanity, and today, very little has changed. We see glimpses of hope like in South Africa where the rule of apartheid was banished and America where black people where finally given their Civil Rights. But these are by far out weighed by examples of which nothing has changed.

In places such as Cambodia (where Pol Pot enforced communism), in Germany (where Hitler enforced National Socialism) and in Russia (where Stalin enforced communism) have endured such brutal and horrific ethnical cleansing atrocities that they have shook the world.

How much do we want that perfect society?
How far will we go to create it?

Even now society isn’t perfect. There are still horrible human acts committed every day. And we have to ask…why? Why do some people want to hurt others, don’t they care? What we have to see is everyone in this world is different, and everyone sees things differently. But then… how can we all live in harmony like most of us want to if we are all so different?

Society will never be perfect, even if everyone did dress the same, look the same and eat the same… I always think humans will have that freedom of opinion.

Opinions can be pressurised and buried, but when they finally resurface they can come with anger and madness. Opinions can be become obsessive and leave a person narrow minded.

But opinions are really all we have got, without them we wouldn’t be truly human. But with them humans can compose anything they want… which doesn’t always bode well. With opinions come wars and peace, discrimination and fairness. We need to find a balance.

The balance is tolerance. We need to have an open mind. We need to work together to create a better future and to solve the current issues and the future ones. We don’t need to like each other we need to understand each other. It’s not a hard thing to do. It’s not changing the way the world works because I don’t think that will happen, but its changing the attitudes of people and the thoughts that lead to actions. It’s a like a mutual friendship.

And we need to work as one, to face all the issues of today because we’ve only got one world here.

Earth is a miracle that we often overlook and some people say that if Earth gets over polluted we can just move to another planet… but….

Will we have the fuel by then?
Will we have the power?
Will we have the technology?
And is there even another planet out there?
And even if there was one, would we learn from our mistakes and make it last?

We see rainforest’s being demolished, once stunning landscapes being deteriorated into land fill sites, we mess with the animal kingdom’s food cycle and force some species to extinction.
Some people could call it evolution but is it what we really want?
We see people aiming to make holidays in space, couldn’t we do something better with the money? Couldn’t we help the starving, suffering millions of people in the world?

The problem is… you’ve heard it all before. There are adverts, documentaries and news reports on all the horror in the world. And it seems to me that we have heard the bad news so many times that we seem to be desensitised to it and think it’s normal.

IT’S NOT.
While we’re complaining about school there are kids literally dying to go to one.

While we’re complaining about the weather there are people starving because of it.

While we complain about our small allowances there are people living off pennies a day.

While I stand here to you complaining about society there are people who need the world’s attention.

But my attempt to tell you of my dream society, feels so futile, because if the truth be known, there never was and never will be a Utopia.