Can we build a utopian society?

Question from the Internet:

“What does it take to build a utopian society?”

I do not think it is possible to build a utopian society since “utopia” means something imaginary, something we imagine as perfect.

And since imaginations, in general, have no foundations or templates, moreover, all our dreams and imaginations — and actually all our ideologies, philosophies, and systems — are based on our inherently illusory, 100% egocentric and subjective perception and consciousness, we can’t build anything that is based on our imagination.

As we can see from historical and contemporary examples, we can’t even build societies based on our actual “knowledge” since even our knowledge is illusory, egocentric, and subjective.

If we want to build a better and sustainable human society, we need to build it based on solid and natural foundations without any subjective or egocentric bias.

And since we are born from nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated system, and we are still integral parts of the same natural system, we will need to use nature’s lawful and deterministic template for rebuilding and rearranging our human society.

Why did we not do it before, and why do we still resist building a “natural” human society?

This is because the required, selfless, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing cooperation is against our sense of being unique, separated, and independent individuals.

By default, we all feel and care for only ourselves, and we filter everything from “absolute reality” according to our 100% self-serving, self-justifying, and exploitative calculations and actions. Thus the nature-like arrangement in society — where all individuals selflessly and unconditionally contribute to the wellbeing and most optimal development of the whole system, and where the more able and stronger one is and the higher one is on the social ladder, the greater responsibility and “public service” one is obliged to provide — is the last thing we would agree to.

This is why we constantly and stubbornly build, destroy, and mindlessly rebuild the same self-destructive structures where everybody aims to control, manipulate and exploit everybody else.

Thus instead of a utopia, we need a special, purposeful, and practical method that is based on the strict, unchanging, and rock-solid laws of nature. This method needs to help us not only understand our total, inevitable, and irrevocable integration and interdependence but it needs to give us the visceral and undoubted sensation of that integration and interdependence.

Then based on this sensation and a very sharp sense of “reward and punishment,” where we feel and experience immediate improvement in our lives when we move towards mutually responsible and mutually complementing cooperation, while we immediately feel crisis and suffering the more we reject one another and succeed at each other’s expense, we will be able to keep ourselves on track towards building a nature-like human society — above and against our inherent nature and tendencies.