The Best Possible World...What does it look like in Non-political terms?

[masmdu]

I realize it's difficult to divorce politics form creating a better world as politics is the MEANS of making the changes desired....

I want to know what the ENDS are...what type of world/life (on a large scale) would you like to see created?

[opihimoimoi]

1. A Sustainable Earth

Which in turn requires PEACE and COOPERATION

and NEW and better SYSTEMS.

[info being]

2. Interesting...

you may be interested in reading this: http://infobeing.blogspot.com/

[info being]

3. My thoughts

- Everyone has lots of good friends who are part of their daily lives...taking care of each other.
- People are free to contribute to the needs of humanity on their own terms...maximizing their skills and abilities to benefit others.
- People are passionate about learning and seeking truth.
- We move toward a sustainable economy where everyone has what they need, but we are not destroying the biosphere.
- People are healthier.
- People recognize their God-like creative powers and conciously work to build a better civilization that is alligned with the laws of evolution.

[wyldwolf]

8. I've watched that TV show for years!

StarTrek!

[elfwitch]

4. Responsibility

It would be a world where everybody would take responsiblity for themselves and quit tryin to blame other people for their misfortunes.
Examples:
Parents need to start being responsible for their kids actions instead of blaming TV and movies.

People need to be more responsible for their own actions instead of blaming the moral decay of America.

Politicians need to be more responsible in their jobs by upholding the oath of office they took instead of doing what the people who gave them the most money ask them to do.

People need to mind their own business instead of trying to run other people's private lives (i.e. - legislation or discrimination against gays, women, minorities, other religfious groups, etc.)

And MUCH MUCH MORE!

If people would just be responsible for themselves and their loved ones and not try to run other people's lives or blame others for their troubles, I think the world would be a better place.

[info being]

5. Similarly

People think about consequences to action, and make rational decisions about right and wrong based on expected consequences.

[MrPrax]

6. in non-political terms?

Probably the cover of a Jehovah Witness pamphlet?

To hard to define 'utopia' without a political compass since human beings are benign and social anyhow

[wyldwolf]

7. Star Trek and the United Federation of Planets

[elfwitch]

9. could never happen

You will NEVER overcome basic human GREED.
Would be nice to have food replicators though.

[wyldwolf]

10. Holodeck!

The things I could do in there with Jessica Alba... or Mariah Carey... or Halle Berry... or...

bow chica bow wow!

[belle]

11. Not a "utopia," but a more realistic better world...

I think it would have to be based on different fundamental assumptions than the ones we have.

The assumption that that everything in the universe is somehow alive and connected, for instance, instead of the belief (explicit or implicit) that most of us have: that the universe is a dead and/or hostile place, and we are (as a species and as individuals) alone in it.

It would have to be based on the knowledge that sex in all its manifest forms is generally a good and healthy thing, as it is a manifestation of the life force.

It would have to value exploration of the inner worlds (psychology, dreams, mysticism) at least as much as the material world. At the same time, the understanding that the material world isn't bad or "fallen" in and of itself; we're here for a purpose. Sensuality is a good thing: good food, good music, good sex...

It would treat art in all its forms as an essential part of living, not as a highly specialized filed that only an elite few can afford to patronize and fewer can create.

It would hold "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" damn near sacrocanct. Likewise freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and freedom to assemble.

It would include other rights among the basic ones that are "self-evident:" the right to be able to eat, put a roof over one's head, maintain a family (whatever that means to you), go to the doctor, get a decent education, and enjoy at least a modest amount of leisure time without having to sacrifice your body, soul, or mental health.

It would seriously question why any one person would need more money than she or he literally knew what to do with.

It would never allow a corporate entity to attain "personhood" status.

It would value plain human curiousity--about other people, about other countries, about the way the world actually works--rather than clinging to the notion of being Number One! It would value diplomacy, and understand the difference between "dilpmoatic" and "caving in out of cowardice."

It would require that a leader at least be able to find a country on a map of the world and name its capital, imports, exports, and be able to talk about some of its history, before being allowed to attack it. A basic understanding of military strategy, or at least chess, would also be good.

Those are starters, anyway.

[lostnfound]

12. VanGogh paintings in place of the billboards

Community/Villages, with some of the modern conveniences
like Internet hookups;
but sustainable, local independence for most stuff;

convenient mass transit (like they have in less primitive countries)

free movement of people across boarders

no one starving anywhere

adoption of the Universal Declaration of Rights

[BloodyWilliam]

13. An eco-technological utopia

A world where all forms of production and consumption are at equilibrium with the ecosystem of the earth, and that all menial production and organization is automated, allowing everyone to spend their time pursuing art or science or anything creative. No more proletariat.