The Utopian Propensity Of Human Imagination: Concious Thought

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Human beings, by nature, are Utopian. We dream and we hope, and since the dawn of civilization, we have conjured notions of an ideal and perfect existence. From the bucolic realms of the Garden of Eden to Plato's republic of philosophers-kings, from the island of paradise of Thomas More's Utopia to the libertarian collectives of nineteenth-century america to the counterculture communes of the 1960's, the ways in which utopia has been envisioned have changed dramatically over time. But whatever forms they have taken, utopian ideals have helped drive forward an unfolding process of reinvention, a process whereby humankind has sought, through vision and experimentation, a new and better life. Indeed, utopian visions, and the social experiments they inspire are a product of our most freely creative faculty, the human imagination. They are an expression of the universal impulse to create the new -- to reshape culture and even conciousness itself.

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