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When I give my list of Achievable, each one can be achieved. I don't use the word "utopia" until the poll, and even if I don't use it at all, it comes in with the apparent starry eyed optimism.
I am optimistic, terminally optimistic. You only need progress, that is enough. The world has millions of years to offer us. A lot of the time people react to this thinking I'm just one of those people that believes in the heart of man. I'm actually really cynical about the heart of man, the development of an infrastructure provided at my link is just self interest.
Some times people think I'm saying stuff is fine now... no. They are better than 1000 years ago. I don't buy any idealized premordial bliss either... though I know for a fact humans have had their bad times and their good times and at the same times.
We are slowly learning values like "slavery is wrong". So it takes a couple thousand years, don't be so impatient.
Look back in your life and see directly up and back behind you into the past generation before generation, that is you, your bodies. The egg and sperm are already alive before they meet, they carry the life with them. Your best interest includes things that play out on that skill.
The development of your advanced brain exists only to understand this, to be able to visualize your connection backward over thousands of years which most animals appear to fail to do. Naturally, this is not a scientific claim for the purpose of it's development, but a spiritual one.
My claim that these things like universal wealth are possible is merely me taking the necessary hard side of the argument if we are to have progress.
Have progressives been losing in electoral politics because they don't really believe their ideals are achievable?! They don't believe it can be done... but that is to underestimate truth and self interest which have long term universe shaping effects just as gravity does.