Because they cannot be imagined.
Modern people cannot even imagine a society of beauty, truth and virtue - because they do not believe, acknowledge or posses these values.
Instead, moderns can only imagine dystopias - and the dystopias are merely exceptionally-cruel societies where there is more-than-current levels of deliberately imposed suffering - the implication is that a 'utopia' is a society without suffering, of constant pleasure merely.
A Utopia of Emotions.
I say emotions, not feelings, because feelings imply consciousness, self-awareness - and in any modern utopia that must be destroyed - because consciousness implies worries about the past and (especially) future - whereas the modern utopia is the obliteration of everything by current pleasure.
The modern utopia is thus indistinguishable from the modern dystopia of a transhumanist, cyborg/ cyberpunk society in which human-machine, technologically-enhanced entities dwell in a paradise of genetic engineering, plastic surgery and drugs...
It will be noticed that the modern utopia is not a genuine utopia because it is not a human society - at most, it is the society of ex-humans, who have destroyed their own consciousness in order to obliterate suffering and thereby experience the totality of current pleasure.
Larry Niven wrote about direct electrical current to the pleasure centers in the brain. Without timers addicts would simply waste away in lethal bliss.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what nasty end the enemy has planned but it must be worse in some way than anything I can imagine. More spiritually damaging, more wicked, more degrading, more inhuman as bad as things are now, how will we know when we get there?