Creating utopia is an impossible endeavor, not only because
people are flawed, but also because people are different. Societies cannot
continue to exist when they are built upon such specifics models, ones that don’t
take into account the ever-changing needs and values of a population. Socrates
is advocating a system that is his ideal of perfection, but it is not everyone’s
ideal society. Socrates advocates the implementation of a specifically reared
ruling class, raised to uphold the ideals of his utopia, but this would only
cause those guardians to become increasingly more out of touch with the
population due to their shielded existence. Who would be updating the
established guardian curriculum? The act of attempting to create a perfect and
just society for an entire population is partially responsible for why society
is not perfect or just. One man’s heaven is another man’s hell, and by suggesting
that one’s heaven should be implemented amongst a people group, one becomes the
reason others devise their own utopias.
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