Utopia

Utopia, in its most common and general positive meaning, refers to the human efforts to create a better society, a perfect society that does not exist (yet).

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Ideas which could radically change our world are often called utopic ideas.

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"Utopia" in a negative meaning is used to discredit ideas as too advanced, too optimistic or unrealistic, impossible to realize.

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It has also been used to describe actual communities founded in attempts to create such a society.

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