Dwain Northey (Gen X)

The euphoric vison of the perfect future utopia I am afraid to say is not something that I can envision. The dystopian hellscape of Mad Max or Blade Runner I don’t see either but the path that humanity is on the dystopian predictions are a more likely scenario if we don’t collectively come to our senses.

The ideal city of the future would be one of abundance not scarcity, homelessness would not be a problem because instead of destroying previously used centers of commerce, i.e. shopping malls, would be converted into low cost if not free housing for those in need. These converted malls would provide shelter and the innumerable restaurants that discard food everyday would provide that, what was to be discarded, food to these centers that already have a food court because that was something that the mall already had.

There would still be Capitalism but those that have would not have millions of times more than every other citizen. There are currently countries that mandate that the CEO of a corporation can only make a certain percentage greater than the median salary in the company. For instance, if the median employee of a corporation makes $100k annually the CEO can’t be paid more than $1 million dollars annually… that is one thousand times the amount of others in the company. Yes, that still makes the COE rich. Currently there are a handful of people on the planet that control 75% or more of the monetary wealth worldwide, that is obscene considering the number living in abject poverty.

There will never be the perfect city of the future we can strive for better and there has to be equity of everyone. I get it this a dream that many have had, Martin Luther King Jr., Gandi, John Lennon… hopefully one day we will wake up and make it a reality.

Imagine (John Lennon)

Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky

Imagine all the people
Livin’ for today
Ah

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too

Imagine all the people
Livin’ life in peace
You

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one

Thanks again for suffering through my rant.