From Where I Stand
Utopia is Around the Next Corner — NOT
In digging into the meaning of the word “utopia,” one discovers two meanings have been assigned to the word.
In the heart of many people is a desire for a non-obtainable concept of utopia. The concept of building a utopian society goes further back in history than the 1516 book by Sir Thomas More with the title “Utopia.” The search for utopia can be found as the people of old tried to build a tower to God, known as the tower of Babel. The true story from the Bible about the people determining they had the brain power and the human strength to build a tower to God in order to show they could be equal with God proved their idea to be a colossal failure. In digging into the meaning of the word “utopia,” one discovers two meanings have been assigned to the word. One of the meanings is “good place.” The second meaning of utopia is “no place.” Can we …
