The Utopian Propensity Of Human Imagination

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Thursday, June 7, 2007

Become Who You Are

One must BECOME who one IS, not who one THINKS one IS – Nietzsche "My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends It gives a lovely light!" ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay It's very difficult to read people (for me anyway) and I'm not meaning that to be in a... Sign in to see full entry.

Concious Thought

12/17/05 07:56 PM The less of this "knowing" and the more "knowing" of what is less is clearing a path for me. Slowly but surely creating a road inside of my mind. It gets easier and easier to travel upon (this so-called "road") as it seems that the clutter is disappearing. Vanishing into the very... Sign in to see full entry.

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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.