Utopianism is the Impossible Pursuit of the New Eden

As it has been well said that the modern myth of the State is the absurd belief that everybody can live at the expense of everybody else, the utopian vision of collectivism is really, in essence, the secularized version of an attempt at having a new Eden.   This attitude is not new, however, in that Thomas Molnar, in his book, Utopia: The Perennial Heresy, clearly explains how truly ancient this false hope really is. 

Ultimately speaking, the thinking involved is really neo-Pelagianism, the secularization of the heretical idea of the religious denial of what the Roman Catholic Church defines as the Doctrine of Original Sin.  It is the irrational presumption that Man (a deified abstraction of a god-term) is, in reality, actually capable of infinite perfection to the nth degree thereof.   Good reading, on such an interesting point, would include John Passmore’s The Perfectibility of Man, as well as Fr. Vincent P. Miceli’s The Gods of Atheism.

Karl Marx, in his writings, included much utopian language about, e.g., how (idealized) workers in a communist society were to easily be able to go “fishing in the afternoon,” though he had always, rather vehemently, insisted that his particular version of socialism was always purely scientific, though all of collectivism is, in fact, necessarily utopian; this is just logically because, prosaic as it may still sound, there’s still no such thing as a free lunch.  

Communism in the former Soviet Union, Red China, Cuba, and everywhere else has always, in fact, failed to deliver the once (ideologically supposed) vast goods and services that the delighted and liberated masses were to then simply have in limitless abundance, according to all the collectivist propaganda, of course.

Nonetheless, people do persist in trying to construct some sort of a version of the new Eden, though hoping that a lesser version might just somehow do the adequate trick.  This is inclusive of social-market economies, as in Europe, and the current attempt, in America, to idiotically try to achieve the same basic conditions under the now current Obama regime.  

Even though the New Deal of the 1930s had failed miserably to give the American masses the once dreamed-of cornucopia of a socialist democracy, many people still have their (false) hopes that this next effort will, assuredly, finally succeed where FDR had basically failed.   The modern myth of the State still holds in thrall the hearts and minds of millions, in this country, who vainly hope for the new heaven and new earth of the Apocalypse, though a totally secularized version, of course, to create, oddly enough, a New Eden on earth, a contradiction within a contradiction.