feotakahari | (no subject)

In a lot of ways, my vision of utopia is a world of absolute banality. I want a world where you argue with your girlfriend, or your workmate isn’t doing her share of the work, or your parents don’t understand your artistic endeavors, and that’s the biggest thing you have to worry about. I want a world where politics is meaningless, because there aren’t any remaining issues a politician could fix. Where any religion that sustains itself by justifying suffering no longer has enough sufferers to market to. Where heroism is no bigger than fighting a fire or preventing a bar fight, because there are no great injustices left to oppose. I want a world of little joys and little hurts.

Many people would call this horrifying. I think the same of your utopias.

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I suspect even the weirder utopias would need this as an intermediate stage. I feel like...I'm not *ready* to form a good sense of what utopia means to me. I would first need to spend a while not being in danger, if I wanted to catch more than glimpses of what I want beyond its absence.