Utopia impossible

 Hi All,

At the basic level the left (the genuine believers) see all the bad in the world and want to make it 'right' and 'just', Exactly how we define these terms is for now not irrelevant, but suffice to say that the left want the planet to be turned into a secular utopia. I write about the 'genuine believers' because there's an element within the far left that simply like chaos and perpetual revolution : if it is not  student riots in 'the summer of love' in the 1960s , it now  involves Green issues, but it's more far left ideology than any concern for people or planet that drives these people to mayhem. For them even a utopia wouldn't be good enough, even if everything was green and the whole country was powered by solar wells, Greta was President of the World, but we can leave them aside for now. 

Creating or living in a secular utopia seems like a noble and great endeavour, indeed in Judaism we have an idea that the Messiah will come and create a divinely ordained utopia on earth. Other religions look to heaven as a form of utopia. However it seems impossible for us human beings to be able to create one on our own, Indeed as history has shown, the further left a government the more oppressive, murderous and dystopian has the place where they're in control become.  The further they try to make a utopia, the further they go from one and this is historical not 'oh well we've never really had a proper socialist government anywhere'  (except Russia, China, Eastern Europe, North Korea, Vietnam , Cambodia and numerous African states) . 

There is, for example, a belief on the left that the climate crisis requires a reduced human population. China tried that and has a massive population imbalance and abortion by state fiat. Taken to the ends justifying the means, they'd be death quotas, set euthanasia at a particular age and abortion after 1 child and who knows what else. The left like to think of themselves as moral and the good guys. But they also seem to have no qualms about ends justifying means. That's the scary part of the far left as once you accept that then you can do anything, no matter how bad.