What is utopia?.- A utopia is the human projection of an ideal world, that is, it is the conception of an ideal world developed by this or that person and that will clearly depend on their motivations, experiences, among others, which are what lead them to build in your mind that ideal world.
Now, it should be noted that hand in hand with utopia walks the impossibility of concretizing such a project or idea, because precisely that is what makes it a utopia: the impossibility of realizing it as it is thought in the time and form in which he thinks about it.
With an example we will see it more clearly, my utopia is to live in the country, away from the city and the frenetic rhythm that is lived in it, but of course, in the today that I think and dream it is impossible for it to be carried out because my work takes place in the city and I have no chance of transferring it to that secluded and ideal space.
Utopias most of the time cannot be put into practice because they would imply having to give up some important aspect, in this case work, which is the way we support ourselves.
Origins and authorship of the concept
Unlike other concepts, utopia has a specific author, the English writer Tomás Moro, who first used it and then popularized it in his work Dē Optimo Rēpūblicae Statu dēque Nova Insula Ūtopia published in 1516. There, Utopia, is the name given to a fictitious community whose political, economic and cultural organization contrasts in many aspects with the contemporary communities of Moro and in which purity and perfection prevail above all things.
In the city of Utopia made in Moro, the community is organized in a super rational way, all the inhabitants live in the same houses and share their goods, that is, there is no social inequality, something so common in any social organization .
In free time, art and reading are the activities most deployed by the "utopians" and only in very extreme cases are they sent to war, which is why, for the most part, this society is used to living in circumstances of peace and harmony. of interests… Quite a dream this too, we just have to look around us to confirm it.
Over time, this ideal world created by Moro in the 16th century is conceptualized and the idea of that ideal world created by him begins to be used to designate precisely that idyllic state of affairs that many times we people form in our minds but that at the same time and due to certain conditions of life it is difficult to specify in the reality in which one lives.
Thus, nowadays, people use the term utopia when they want to refer to that plan or project that is presented to the eyes of anyone who knows it as unrealizable at the moment in which it is conceived or proposed.. Basically, because capable proposes or promotes feelings or conditions that in a certain community or context are practically impossible. For example, today, a world peace plan extended to every corner of the world is a utopia because there are so many opposing interests and a deep hatred between sectors that is so ingrained that it is impossible to just think about the realization of that plan. Of course it would be fantastic but if you think about it with your feet on the ground it is impossible because there would not be a total convention of the sectors to put it into practice.
Utopias exist in all areas, there are economic ones, such as being able to live in a world in which money does not exist and where we can all do only jobs that we like or like. Then there are the environmentalists, the political and religious.
