jason
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Post by jason on Nov 23, 2014 10:14:30 GMT
After reading the story about Thomas Moore's Utopia, would you guys want to live in a world like that? If you do please explain why.
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Post by dhiya on Nov 23, 2014 12:07:23 GMT
No. Even before reading Utopia, I don't believe in the concept of the 'perfect' world. The definition of perfect varies to one person to another. So what one considers a perfect world, might not seem so ideal to others. There are some aspects I agree with Thomas Moore, such as having one universal language, and most I don't agree with. So I don't think I want to live in Moore's Utopia.
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Post by saimoon1 on Nov 23, 2014 13:00:54 GMT
Nah man, I don't think i will survive there everything being so similar. Besides, from class discussions we figured out that it is not possible to have a perfect society as described by the author of Utopia. Even though it seems equal and everything, human nature will always take over and make things unequal.
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Post by lukejoo on Nov 23, 2014 13:07:14 GMT
No, I wouldn't. It's "his" utopia, not mine. But even if I was given the power to make my own perfect world, I think I wouldn't do so. I believe that the world we live in right now is as perfect as life can be. As long as we are humans, nothing will ever be perfect because of our individuality. None of us is the same and therefore there will always be disagreements, conflicts, mismatches, and so on. But despite such differences, the very fact that our society can still function properly proves that the world we are living in now is capable of coping such issues. Trying to create a new one would simply cause other problems that we failed to anticipate in the first place.
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Post by sergeyfen on Nov 23, 2014 13:16:32 GMT
Nope. There is no such things as Utopia it never existed and never will because we were designed to have leaders, ambitions, jealousy, and etc, In the story he mentions about people having same amount of lands and same distance between the cities as they are all equivalent to each other but he mentions a capital, giving city a name and proclaiming it as the center of all is already not perfect, in perfect society there would not be capitals , provinces, and other names. Author also mentions serfs,how can you have utopia with slaves and having serfs tells us about social hierarchy, not exactly the utopia we thought of. I would not want to live in his utopia or any other's, I believe that people get their status by hard work and nothing else.
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daniel
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Post by daniel on Nov 23, 2014 13:29:34 GMT
No i dont want to live in his Utopia, after i read his Utopia, i realized that everyone has their own Utopia, and one's utopia usually not other's utopia. Everything Moore thought as Utopia didnt match my utopia and my way of thinking.
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Post by crystalcao on Nov 23, 2014 14:02:39 GMT
I don's want to stay in Utopia, there is so boring. I think there is equal but no real "FREEDOM". Their clothes all same and their thoughts are similar, I don't like this, all of them like a doll, people need respect their human nature. Create is important.
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Post by nerdira on Nov 23, 2014 14:08:38 GMT
I hate the lack diversity in utopia, what kind of person could possibly think that a society that lacks diversity in culture and fashion could possibly succeed. I know his goal was to make things equal for everyone so discrimination would not happen, but I feel like educating the masses instead of making them all similar would be a better thing to do.
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Post by brandonina on Nov 23, 2014 14:15:50 GMT
I don't want to live in Utopia because there's obviously so many flaws. The major thing is that I don't think there's any freedom of the individuals. I can't speak whatever language, wear whatever clothes I want, or do whatever I like. I don't want such feeling of suppression and homogeneity (if it works). However, on the other hand, if I was born into such world, not knowing how life is like today, then I don't think I wouldn't be as unhappy as I think i will be.
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jimim
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Post by jimim on Nov 23, 2014 14:34:56 GMT
No I don't want to live in Utopia because it seems like Utopia is kind of Communism. I don't want to do same work everyday and get same profit. Also it will be very board in their because I won't have any freedom their. Instead of living in boring Utopia, I would choose to live in free places, places that have more freedom that I have choice to pick.
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Post by leeeeena on Nov 23, 2014 14:47:35 GMT
No because Utopia sounds like there's no freedom. It is insane and boring that people have to follow the rules such as time to work and sleep, where to live, etc.
I do not think Utopia would work because we all have different feelings and emotions.
It is impossible to make 'perfect' world since all of us are somehow greed and selfish
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Post by irin on Nov 23, 2014 14:58:28 GMT
I think Utopia show they doesn't has perfect society also it is impossible to have perfect society it seems equal and everything,but human nature will always take over and make things unequal
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Post by jmoon234 on Nov 23, 2014 15:00:59 GMT
I think that this kind of society is too much of a pain to live in because there are too much to follow. The rules in this utopia is very complex like the with the distance of the towns and the job occupation and sharing materials. Things are easier in the current world not the world in "Utopia".
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Post by mirim002 on Nov 23, 2014 16:39:04 GMT
I do not want in a society that slaves, when they say that people are all equal. Everyone has to wear the same clothes, and that shows to me that there is no creativity in the world. No creativity, life becomes boring. I do not want people to order me when to sleep and work. I think there is no such thing as a "utopia". There is no such thing as a perfect society.
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Post by dannyoh on Nov 23, 2014 17:40:24 GMT
If I could live in my own Utopia I would but I would never want to live in Sir Thomas Moore's Utopia. I guess that just shows all of our differences because while he might think of this as his perfect world, to many of us, we think it's the worst idea of where we'd want to live.
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