text: Reminds me of Lois Lowry's book "The Giver". Read that to get a better feeling for utopias. It's short, >200 pages.\n\n=====\nMORE\n=====\n\nOk, so you read the Giver. Then, I would ask: "At what price is the utopia achieved?" The universe is balanced, so if you eliminate pain, suffering, and saddness you cannot retain joy, happiness, and desire. You have to wonder if life in a Utopian world would have any meaning. Remember what Walt Whitman said:\n\nO me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring;\nOf the endless trains of the faithless--of cities fill'd with the foolish;\nOf myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)\nOf eyes that vainly crave the light--of the objects mean--of the struggle ever renew'd;\nOf the poor results of all--of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me;\nOf the empty and useless years of the rest--with the rest me intertwined;\nThe question, O me! so sad, recurring--What good amid these, O me, O life?\n\nAnswer.\n\nThat you are here--that life exists, and identity;\nThat the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.