I came to writing this through the influence of three of my hobbies. The first is robotics. After watching "The Empire Strikes Back" I realized that the best way to build an anthropomorphic robot is to mimic the way humans are put together. This led me to read up on how the body works, especially the brain. Second was my interest in where humans came from and how they evolved. This exposed me to some of the reasons why societies succeeded and failed. Finally, being a Canadian, I enjoy the national pastime of complaining about the government. For me the party system of politics is intolerable. Even past greats like Plato realized that party politics is a bad thing. What’s worse is that most electors don’t really grasp the concept. This has led to very short term thinking and swings from one extreme to another. Every time I complained, somebody would say "Yes, but it’s the best system we have." Now they won’t be able to say that.

Many people in the past have tried to come up with an ideal place to live with ideal laws, ideal government and the ideal education. Everyone has failed at this task. They failed because they made wrong assumptions about humans and their nature. They also dismissed certain human behavior as inconsequential or easily eliminated. Their biggest mistake was to elevate humans above all other living things. In their belief that human behavior is controlled by the intellect rather than instinct, they ignored a great deal that determines how we live. They could not hope to come to a real, workable society by ignoring this fact. Now, as our understanding of evolution, genetics and the brain increases, we can begin to regroup and come up with a workable society that lasts.

Another mistake of "Utopians" has been their failure to grasp what humans really want. Utilitarians have sent many people down the wrong path saying that people want to "maximize happiness". When you combine the principles of Dawkins "Selfish Gene" with evolutionary psychology you see that what humans really strive for is to maximize reproductive potential. What is reproductive potential? It is everything you need to attract a mate and raise children. Power, money, health and popularity are just some of the things that make up reproductive potential. This is not to say that people will use any or all of their reproductive potential. Gay people and some of the very rich are a few examples of people that do not have kids yet continue to strive for all the things that would increase their potential. I am also not saying that everybody tries to gain in all possible areas. Some people strive to increase wealth, others do heroic or kind things to increase popularity.

Another thing that the "designers of the perfect society" have done wrong is to try and destroy the family unit. I find this not only unworkable but also totally ludichrist. "Family" is something that has been programmed into us for many millions of years. We can no more drop our need and love for family than a leopard can change his spots. These misguided people have felt that love of family is at conflict with love of state. What they seem to have completely missed is that if a person can see that the state is providing a positive future for their family, they will fight, internally and externally, for the continuation of that state with much more vigour than anyone without family, regardless of what pledges the second person may have taken.

Now I am not saying that we could switch to this new system overnight. The only way to do this is to start a new state, like Plato did in "The Laws." For a first world country like Canada the changes would have to be implemented in stages. The first change would be to the education system. Over the next 15 - 25 years government and laws would slowly be changed, the less controversial ones first. This way the majority of the people living in this "utopia" would have been educated properly. This will make the final, but more controversial changes go easier.