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Utopia or Erewhon, are fictional places where humans have created a peaceful community where cooperation has become a way of life.

Context

• As always for this wiki the context revolves around the support of human individuals on the World Wide Web.
• Lyman Tower Sargent, a professor of political science whose main academic interests are in utopian studies, argues that utopia's nature is inherently contradictory, because societies are not homogenous and have desires which conflict and therefore cannot simultaneously be satisfied. If any two desires cannot be simultaneously satisfied, true utopia cannot be attained because in utopia all desires are satisfied.y
• So too for identity utopias, they cannot be attained because not all needs can be met by any one system.
• But there have always been visionaries that have promised that humans are capabile of living both in harmony and with minimal contraints on their own personal freedom.
• The internet started as a network with the minimun number of contraints so as to avoid distruction of anyone one part of the network. It has

Problems

• The primary problem is human nature, it seems that too many people in any one society are unwilling to compromise their own desires for the common good of society.
• In his book "Antisocial: Online Extermists, Techno-utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation^[1] Anrew Marantz tells us

References

1. ↑ Anrew Marantz, AntiSocial Viking (2019)