@notspookypip we have to work on correcting our usage of #utopia and as I understand from you, we also must start using more #eutopia word, however, I guess, when a collectivity gives a lot of meaning to a word in a deviant from the original way we encounter this problem: we will have to explain all the times, that we wanted to mean eutopia... (Something nice and reachable, if I understood your text...)
On the other side, is better that #utopias, don't happen as they were thought in the beginning. I will give you an example. It comes from my training on lucid dreaming It also come from my disagreement with most of the people who are engaged into practicing #lucid #dreaming:
There is a sort of dogma about having plans that we want to DO when we get Lucid with control inside a dream: it's having an #oniric #plan
In order to have nice lucid dreams many people make a sort of plan or a story about what they want to dream. Many people are so attached to their first plan, that they don't get grateful for obtaining a lot of wisdom from other type of dreams or from changed versions of their plan on lucid dreams. So they are blind to recognize that their subconscious mind created a better version of the plan, that fits more with the synchronisms of the complexity of the universe (in this case oniric). The productivity concept even goes to the dreaming activity for certain practitioners of astral projection and lucid dreaming.
There is another problem of utopia: if it is not designed in a #participative way, then is an #utopia for some of the members of that collectivity, but not for all. Some utopias could be dystopian for someone else... The designers of the #utopias and #eutopias should avoid messianic ideas/ behaviors, or thinking that they know better what everyone needs.
The characteristic of utopia as something that keeps in the realms of the world of ideas (the one of Plato), is a sort of anchor that keep us moving after finding good results close to the goals.... It is better that utopía is "unreachable": if the end of the race moves forward, we keep running. Is not bad to go for more. Robert Monroe, got bored in the #paradise because it was #stagnant.
On my current view, the capacity to be grateful, with the #eutopias, on the infinite way to #utopia, is a great source of happiness. And yes #happines exists, and is very very close to each of us but we lost the capacity to feel it. We need to study more, Marilyn Monroe's #wisdom... Yes one person who suicided can't teach a lot about #happiness... We are also seeing this phenomena in kids from Palestine... Who are able to be grateful, of things that for most of us, look like hell. One of the pillars of happiness, eutopia and utopia is explicit and loud #gratitude.
I am not romanticizing war, i'm just in "aw" when I see some people in the worst circumstances, showing the best side humanity. Maybe we have to invent #microeutopias to face those ones spreading #dystopia everywhere....