Well, Finally a nice day off. Not much to do though, except again ponder the nature of humanity. Today thoughts centered around the nature of a utopian society - what exactly would that be? The central problem is that many people have entirely different ideas as to what makes a perfect world. That in itself would lead to conflict and obvious results... but I know most people want a better world for themselves, so again I have to ask "What is going on?"
.... After a bit of brain wracking I have a possible answer...
For the most part the average person is concerned only with existing in as stable an environment as possible, people don't like change that much.
Expanding experience beyond what we usually know is something few people every really do. hmm, I seem to be losing cohesion.. getting back to point.. it is a lot easier to look after "ones own" than be open to everyone, we always actively look for ways to seperate ourselves from other people, for example things as innocent as sports team are used to divide groups, while I admit its not really a divisive agent it can easily get out of hand - soccer riots.
But that's just a minor case really, the most common ways we divide ourselves is by race and nationality. It is healthy to have a certain pride in ones self and culture but there is a fine line between pride and zealousness.
Its fine to say that your group is great because ____________, but at the point you say your group is better that other because... then that crosses into the same ultra-nationalistic fevor that gripped Germany from 1938 - 1945.
What scares me is our neighboring country is also in a fevor reaching ultra-nationalistic levels (US). Though even that view might be a bit skewed of course, since nothing is more the rage than good ol' America bashing.. all things considered they could be a lot worse... which isn't to say they couldn't be a whole lot better.