Utopia NOW!!!!

For years and years now we have looked up to our chosen governments to provide us better living conditions and to help us all realise our own Utopian ideas. Unless in today's society you personally believe in a religion which offers you a sense of heaven after death and that you are currently just on a journey in life to getting there, (which to me appears to be a hopeful and calming thought), most people have lost faith in heaven or believe in hell which i find leads them on a selfish path to destruction. With no believe in heaven causes no real need to be extra caring to other people and no believe in Hell leads to no fear for wrong doing. Since some people have lost faith in God or in our Government, they find it in them selves to create there own utopia with in their own life's. Whether this be through that new car or new bag you have always wanted. Maybe it is that holiday you have always dreamed of or that house in the countryside. What if your utopia is to just provide for your family and give them the best, whatever it is nowadays it all appears to resort back to consumption and self image. We appear so intent in consuming and wasting so much material just to try and create our own Utopian lives.

Even art it self has become an consuming self imaging commodity. from a 20th century avant-garde art movement like Cubism pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, which revolutionized European visual art, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture,  to the Young British Artist's of today, one being Damien Hurst and his £50m platinum skull completely covered by 8,601 diamonds. (image below)

What i am trying to say is that by us humans trying to create our own Utopian worlds we have become so very, very selfish and the contradicting part of it all is by doing this we are literally destroying the world we live in to do it. Our need for Utopia is becoming our real Dystopia. Mother Nature is fighting back.