What does an ideal world look like to you?

Instead of focusing too much on all of the things that are currently wrong, could you please help paint a picture of what a future utopian society could look like?

My vision is heavily inspired by Terence McKenna. I imagine a world as it might have existed during prehistoric times. Lush forests teeming with exotic wildlife, clean air, and crystal clear water. No highways full of billboards, no parking lots, no shopping malls, and no cars. Just safe grounds and paths for humans embedded deep within all of this nature.

At a birds-eye view, it may look as if humanity has completely abandoned technology and regressed back into its childhood. Yet if you were to look out through the eyes of one of these utopian people, you would see the most wonderful augmented reality display.

Information, communication, entertainment, education, global economies… almost everything has been de-materialized. Humanity’s ceaseless pursuit of technology has been mostly divorced from our physical environment and mother earth is bustling with life again.

The only technologies that remain in the real world are those that help all of us live happy and healthy lives (modern medicine, delicious food, solar power, etc) all the while the shared virtual reality in our eyes is limited only by our collective imaginations.

We are finally living in accord with nature without having to forsake our innate desire for knowledge and progress.

JoeClu,
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We are energy beings with no flesh and blood. We can take whatever form we desire. Food, water, and oxygen are not required, but still enjoyed if you want. We can create and destroy our own reality by just willing it so. We are not imprisoned by spacetime. We are completely free and immortal. You must be invited I to anothers reality. Once there you have no power to create or destroy in the host reality. You can leave the host reality at any time. You seek out benevolent host realities and can exist in your own simultaneously. We are highly intelligent, wise, and experience much wider and deeper emotions than humans. We have any sensor we desire, nothing is hidden from us, other than others’ internal and external realities if not invited.

Kolanaki,
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I spend most of my time on the internet anyway, so I’ve always thought it would be kick ass if I could upload my conciousness to the net and become an immortal living meme.

Clipper152,

A world where all humans are autistic.

It wouldn’t solve everything, but at least there wouldn’t be room for chronic reification, useless charismatic narcissists, Cartesian dualism, etc to become big issues like they are in our world.

x4740N,
@x4740N@lemmy.world avatar

Speaking as someone with autism you are wrong and misinformed

Autism doesn’t give everyone the same static personality

We are just like you, we just process information differently to you and there’s nothing wrong with that

Clipper152,

I’m autistic too.

My point isn’t that autistic people have a single, utopian personality, but that we’re generally less susceptible to certain social/psychological phenomena that tend to make societies shittier.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Well, we could all move into a matrix-like universe where we’re gods, I guess. Then all we’d need for civilisation is server farms and the infrastructure to maintain them.

More near-term, if I was dictator for a day I’d impose a wealth cap between at maybe 10 or 15 million CAD and a guaranteed income you can live a very basic but comfortable life on. I feel like that would solve most problems. This could be applied globally too (with some ramp-up time) if we’re assuming world government. Climate change could be addressed with a carbon tax high enough to fund the offsetting of the pollution’s social cost.

I’m a wonk and I could go on, but those are the biggest things.

x4740N,
@x4740N@lemmy.world avatar

Dictatorship is never a good thing even if the dictator is benevolent because it removes the choice of the people of who they want to be represented by

CanadaPlus, (edited )

I needed a magical way to answer the question, though!

I’d actually go further - dictatorships don’t really exist, just steeply tapering autocracies. The dictator is at the top, but just like everyone else they spend their days avoiding being knocked down the pyramid, and they can’t know and often don’t care what people are doing a couple steps down. Meanwhile, the people who aren’t right on top get absolutely fucked by whoever is a couple steps up from them, with the step in between acting as intermediaries.

PowerCrazy,

My ideal world is one where the population of humanity exceeds 10trillion, but the population of earth is <100,000 permanent residents with yearly visitation from tourism etc exceeds 100million thanks to the series of space elevators that have been built. The majority of humanity are living in space at various Lagrange points in O’Neill cylinders and at least a quarter of humanity are in living in generation ships traveling to distant stars many that are >10pc away.
The Asteroid Belt has been mostly mined out though that isn’t much of a problem as fission/fusion generation supplementing the solar dyson ring has transformed us firmly into a type 1 civilization.

APassenger,

I like all this and I’ll add that for those who choose to participate, there is more than enough. For those who opt out, there is no lack.

But numbing oneself isn’t a passtime.

And all are treated with respect and freedom for all is a primary principle.

In essence: this and the other post that includes no scarcity and the end of capitalism.

x4740N, (edited )
@x4740N@lemmy.world avatar
  • democracy with citizens having more power and having the ability to revoke a representative by vote if they turn out to be a dick
  • Mix of socialism / communism ideals that offer the best of both worlds that gives the people control while also supplying the needs of the people
  • no scarcity
  • equality
  • No discrimination
  • solarpunk
  • capitalism is abolished
  • high quality of life
  • needs of the population met
  • Complete automation of production, repetitive tasks and menial tasks so humans can enjoy life
platysalty,

We are finally living in accord with nature without having to forsake our innate desire for knowledge and progress.

Everything changed when the fire nation attacked

Gormadt,
@Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

My vision of an ideal world is a hard one to answer but does have a few key aspects to it.

Where getting sick or hurt doesn’t financially ruin someone.

Where people can seek mental health care without destroying their lives.

Where homelessness is a thing of the past.

Where no one goes hungry.

Where seeking to improve yourself via higher education doesn’t cost money.

Where school funding is based on needs rather than location.

Where people are judged by the value of their character rather than the color of their skin, who they love, or the money in their bank account.

My ideal world isn’t some far off fantasy, my ideal world is something that we can achieve in our lifetimes if we try.

Prefix,

I want to live in that world.

HorrorSpirit,
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Saving this thread for writing inspiration.

I’ve always dreamed of being the last human on earth. There are signs of civilization yet it is all overgrown and in the process of being taken in by nature. The climate and ecosystem has rebalanced itself from what man did. There’s no else to annoy or judge me, and i can do whatever i please without caring for how i am perceived. I can finally be my true self. Eventually i, too, die, and nature simply forgets as mankind’s influence fades.

dylanmorgan,

All people guaranteed a baseline lifestyle. Housing, food, clean water, healthcare, electricity, internet. Everyone contributes to maintaining infrastructure in some way, would probably require 10-20 hours a week. Beyond that, people free to do what they want. Garden, make art, invent new things, whatever.

vd1n,

No humans. Not even their skeletons… Even the history of humanity complete wiped out like they never existed.

milkjug,
@milkjug@lemmy.world avatar

Sign me the fuck up! Collectively, we really are a blight on Earth.

CanadaPlus,

Eh. Somebody else is going to evolve intelligence then. And honestly being a wild animal sucks pretty hard too.

CarlsIII,

Everyone acting in good faith all the time. Yeah, it’s impossible.

somethingsnappy,

Doesn’t even need to be that good. Start with what northern Europe has, eat the rich, keep improving.

milkjug,
@milkjug@lemmy.world avatar

One of those things is not like the others. Northern Europe is not even that great.

CanadaPlus,

I would assert that most problems are caused by ignorance, not malice.

UrPartnerInCrime,
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UBI that is linked to the average income. So the more people work, the more everyone gets every month and vice versa. Make it so jobs are not necessary but available to better help humanity or whatever since machines will be able to provide most if not all the labor.

Kolanaki,
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It looks like the bridge of the Enterprise from Star Trek: The Next Generation. I want Earth to be like that. Instead, though, we seem to be stuck in William Gibson’s Neuromancer universe.

Nonameuser678,
@Nonameuser678@aussie.zone avatar

One where the rich pay more tax then they currently do now. Also slap a carbon tax on these fuckers and use the cash to fund climate mitigation / adaptation.

eu,

Fully automated luxury communism. Basically a post-scarcity egalitarian society. Fueled by fusion power, if possible.

st3ph3n,
@st3ph3n@kbin.social avatar

Came here to post this too. Post-scarcity, nothing to go to war over, everyone's comfortable.

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