Reimagining Utopia

American society has a dirty word that no one likes to talk about. It’s something that we’ve known about for a long time but is absent from our national dialogue. The word utopia conjures up visions of the ideal but carries with it the stigma of impossibility. We hear it and there’s the conditioned and somewhat automatic response to dismiss it, the idea that humanity could transcend is unbelievable. We mistake our misunderstandings as known futures, denying ourselves the ability to be more than we are. Utopia is a very real and very possible goal for humanity if we could only better conceptualize the idea.