I have just seen the movie "Childhood's end" .
Here is a an opinion on something specific for whoever is interested.
I found it very good and refreshing, but I have the same pitiful thoughts that I had with Huxley's brave new world and other critic art on utopias. Namely that utopia can't be perfect, even very bad. I find that a contradiction in itself. If it isn't (near) perfect, it's not an utopia or otherwise said, problems in a perfect life means the life is not perfect to begin with. I think authors just put their opinion of what would go wrong with utopias and just throw it in their story as if that's absolutely determined to happen. I think the absence of alternatives is a lack of imaginiation.
Of course utopias won't look like what they describe if these problems are there. But will those problems really arise? Maybe we have to live it to really know it. And can't one write more possible solutions? Sometimes the inevitability of it and the jump to a radical storyline without any other trial solutions, seems so childish to me. Can nobody really write anything that could be a real utopia, whether in reality it can or can't be reached, but com'on, I'm tired of no author daring to go for it.
Maybe the whole problem is that if there are no problems, no drama, nobody would read it, it would never sell and thus never have reached me?
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P.S. Yes, I think, that even the children reaching the Overmind is not utopic nor ethical. All living life on earth and earth itself HAS to be destroyed??!! WTF!! And the "devils" can't ever reach it. Pooh.
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Don't get me wrong, there is more than room for these "imperfect utopias", but on one side it's so embedded in culture that people IRL give up on striving to a better world BECAUSE of these art and secondly, com'on, I want a story of a more or less real utopia!!! Wééééé 😭
But, OK, Childhood's end does come pretty close and the argument (which is actually in the title itself, namely we have to "grow up") is very pleasing to me and I enjoyed it very much generally. I can use my own imagination to make it an utopia after all, with a bit of tweaking.
Here is a very detailed and nice take on the movie and deeper meanings