Sir Thomas More, Utopia

When it comes to changing the ways of a State, there will come the time for us to realize we have to know what we want of it. This will not be an effortless task. It will require time and work from Civil Society to demand these set of requirements.

To this Mexican Daydream, I would like to bring some people that tried to imagine other worlds better than the ones they were living.

"The streets are twenty feet broad; there lie gardens behind all their houses; these are large but enclosed with buildings that on all hands face the streets; so that every house has both a door to the street, and a back door to the garden. Their doors have all two leaves, which, as they are easily opened, so they shut of their own accord; and there being no property among them, every man may freely enter into any house whatsoever. At every ten years' end they shift their houses by lots."

At first, I thought, mhmh never gonna happen but the I thought about growing migrant cultures /airbandb and it sort of made sense. Maybe shifting places and jobs according to same qualifications? New environments might keep people motivated and setting new challenges, opening more to a global and inclusive culture thus becoming more empathic? 

"Every family makes their own clothes; but all among them, women as well as men, learn one or other of the trades formerly mentioned."

Not a bad idea, isn't it? Might come in handy perhaps? 

"And if after a person has learned one trade, he desires to acquire another, that is also allowed, and is managed in the same manner as the former. When he has learned both, he follows that which he likes best, unless the public has more occasion for the other."

I know so many people that have kept to their same job because they didn't have time to accomplish another set of skills to evolve into something else they wanted out of life. Wouldn't it be wonderful not that we become a state that sustains eternal students (someone has to work obviously) but what if it was required to acquire another skill, another master, another hobby in behalf of the company we work in, each year?

"By the same rule, they supply cities that do not increase so fast, from others that breed faster; and if there is any increase over the whole island, then they draw out a number of their citizens out of the several towns, and send them over to the neighboring continent; where, if they find that the inhabitants have more soil than they can well cultivate, they fix a colony, taking the inhabitants into their society, if they are willing to live with them; and where they do that of their own accord, they quickly enter into their method of life, and conform to their rules, and this proves a happiness to both nations; for according to their constitution, such care is taken of the soil that it becomes fruitful enough for both, though it might be otherwise too narrow and barren for any one of them."

Detached individuals? Even of kids it seems in a prior paragraph (and money of course), evening out conditions, landscapes and neighbourhoods made of 6.000 individuals.

"There are also, without their towns, places appointed near some running water, for killing their beasts, and for washing away their filth, which is done by their slaves."

Sir Thomas really... Slaves? 

"They never sup without music."

Sounds good to me. 

"In choosing their wives they use a method that would appear to us very absurd and ridiculous, but it is constantly observed among them, and is accounted perfectly consistent with wisdom. Before marriage some grave matron presents the bride naked, whether she is a virgin or a widow, to the bridegroom; and after that some grave man presents the bridegroom naked to the bride. We indeed both laughed at this, and condemned it as very indecent. But they, on the other hand, wondered at the folly of the men of all other nations, who, if they are but to buy a horse of a small value, are so cautious that they will see every part of him, and take off both his saddle and all his other tackle, that there may be no secret ulcer hid under any of them; and that yet in the choice of a wife, on which depends the happiness or unhappiness of the rest of his life, a man should venture upon trust, and only see about a hand's-breadth of the face, all the rest of the body being covered, under which there may lie hid what may be contagious as well as loathsome. All men are not so wise as to choose a woman only for her good qualities; and even wise men consider the body as that which adds not a little to the mind: and it is certain there may be some such deformity covered with the clothes as may totally alienate a man from his wife when it is too late to part from her. If such a thing is discovered after marriage, a man has no remedy but patience. They therefore think it is reasonable that there should be good provision made against such mischievous frauds."

Heheheheh. Cause if you liked it, you should put a ring on it!

"He therefore left men wholly to their liberty, that they might be free to believe as they should see cause; only he made a solemn and severe law against such as should so far degenerate from the dignity of human nature as to think that our souls died with our bodies, or that the world was governed by chance, without a wise overruling."

Live in awe of the gift of life and creation / don't give anything for granted kind of religion?