Utopia is a Poop Sandwich:

That Tastes Like Chocolate.

O Utopia, Utopia, wherefore art thou Utopia?

Utopia, as a signifier, represents hours of tedious, boorish hand wringing about social justice. My personal take anyway. Another is that Utopia is way too similar to Heaven. Which in the end just means, NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN EVER.

I want our world to be better. My title is specifically how we need to approach the concept of, Utopia. If we plan to move from what to how, and Utopia is the goal, how would we do that if a practical assessment is that it is nigh impossible?

I like, personally, the Buddhist approach specifically because of one important factor, the Buddha taught one key element to “how.” Discard this “eternity” BS, and focus on how you live right now. This very minute, every breath a chance to soak up this teensy-tiny morsel of goodness. If you can put this poop sandwich, which looks like wet, predigested filth will squirt out at any minute, if you can get it in there it will, I guarantee, it will taste like chocolate. This is the reality of a good spiritual awakening. It looks like a giant turd because it is like, “oh, you there, no fun, no sex, no drugs, no greed, nothing to get your jollies off.” That is one giant poop sandwich if I ever met one.

Immediacy right? We don’t even know what it is about! You can have sanity right now if you take it up with passion, gusto, earnestness. Could we have a tiny bit of Utopia? Yeah, if we eat some tasty poop sandwich. Comprehending the directness that living life is, that is where we fall into pieces. Immediacy in our culture is about our egos, and never about love.

It’s exactly our “what is Utopia” that wields endless wars. Everyone has an angle, and refuses to let go of an inch, all with the purpose of proving them self to be “the most right” about WHAT.

Phooey on that!

So, bravo! Please, more how’s.

Oh, and no need to let this go. Yes, paying people a living wage is the trickiest trick in Capitalism. It is indeed a trick in other economies, but this whole “thing/worlds/evolution of humanity” is a work in progress. So — it does fall specifically on the worker to keep demanding some semblance of fairness. If we don’t then we simply will not get any at all.