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Milk & Honey

Go to the land flowing with milk and honey

there are riches for all to share

your neighbor says thank you

and nobody fights

because offense is to hard to bare.

The tears are few

The smiles are plenty,

and everyone is smart and well read.

The perfect people

all live here

in this land of milk and honey.

But, milk spoils,

and too much honey makes your teeth rot.

[huskerred100]

The Truth of a Perfect Society

As Socrates is putting together this thought of a perfect city together, I am constantly finding myself comparing his ideal scenario to a book named “Brave New World”, by Aldous Huxley. Both of these situations easily call the question to mind, what is the purpose to our lives? This is not an easy thought to wrap your mind around, or maybe more-so uncomfortable As Socrates brings an empire of perfection to life through speech, he brings up the idea of a breeding system. “All these women are to belong to all these men in common, and no woman is to live privately with any man. And the children, in their turn, will be in common, and neither will a parent know his own offspring, nor a child his parent”. Aldous Huxley also covers a point of a breeding system, although only breeding babies artificially, there is also an effort to demolish the family culture by forbidding wives and relationships. Even if an individual doesn’t “engage” with more than two people in a week, they are criticized and taken in for extra “conditioning” to remove their feelings of attachment. As we can see the deterioration in the structure of family, this causes me to question the authenticity and meaning of the lifestyles belonging to the “perfect” society. We can identify that, in a perfect society, there is a removal of feeling. Though these individuals do technically “think”, technically they are very well educated and understand much about the workings of the world. But they have lost the ability to feel, to question, and to consider. In Socrates’ and Huxley’s societies, they are both run by a type of “philosopher”, somebody who actually sees and understands the true meaning of these lifestyles, but others are only trained to THINK they are happy. Others are truly living a life of obliviousness to succeed the point of a perfect society. These individuals are unable to question their lives, they live unexamined lives. But an unexamined life is a life not worth living. As Socrates covered the subject of education, covering the three different classes and the education that they would receive. One would not be better, but each class would have a role in the society, and each would have a sense of belonging as they would be performing a special duty that was essential to the function of the society. Huxley also covers education, he divides the classes into Alpha, Beta, Delta, Epsilon, etc. The Alphas were thoroughly “bred” and “conditioned” to be super human, very smart and physically attractive and skilled. Epsilons on the other hand, were bred to be inferior, stupid, ugly, and take care of some of the simplest tasks that the society requires. However, even the Epsilons are bred to be very happy performing their duties, and realizing their inferiority, they would still rather be bred as Epsilons instead of Alphas. The same is for Socrates society, everyone was very content in their lifestyles. But what is wrong with this? Just as we covered in class, nearly everybody can live a happy life, because we don’t understand what happiness is. We don’t understand what good is, the idea of good, and we can’t explain it. This again brings up the point of life, is it more important to life a happy life, living as we watch the shadows in the cave? Or is it more important to find the truth as the philosopher does, and experience the joy of ultimate wisdom and knowledge? Looking through the frame of a philosopher, we must try and understand the true meaning of our world. Through this mindset, we are much more enabled to determine what is right, what is just, and what is good. The perfect societies of Huxley and Socrates are nothing more than corrupt societies, limiting the minds and views of humankind. These societies are basically eliminating the human mind, the ability to think, and the reason to our life. In these “perfect societies”, we are making people believe they’re happy. In a true perfect society, everybody would be enabled to look through the frame of a philosopher, everybody would be enabled to find the truth, meaning, and the good. Though maybe not the most realistic idea, a true perfect society, is a society of understanding and truth. We should not prefer to watch the shadows on the wall of the cave and do it contently while there is an entire paradise of truth and goodness. A perfect society does not belong in a cave, but a perfect society will stem from the philosophers freeing of the individuals. Our lives are not meant for us to believe that we are happy, but ultimately to find the real meaning of happiness, truth, and understanding.

[jeanieluvsu]

A Perfect Society

Perfection is something we are told doesn’t exist but it is something we all strive for. It is something everyone wants but truly does no have. My idea of a perfect society is one without heartbreak, without pain and suffering, no hate and bullying. It’s one where kids can go to school without worry and fear, where no one feels like they are alone with no one to turn to in times of need, and no one would feel the need to turn to drastic measures to fix the problem, like cutting or suicide.

            Kids could walk through the halls without fear of being judged and rejected. No one would feel alone and broken to the point where the only solution they see is taking their own life. No kid would feel so insecure that they have to make others feel bad to make themselves satisfied and confident.