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by hellbanner 3882 days ago
I don't think the world is anywhere close to Utopia. We have:

* Starving people

* Wars

* Racial prejudice

* Vastly uneven distribution of healthcare across the globe

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Utopia is a horribly misused word - the entire point was that it was an impossible idea - it literally means "nowhere" see Thomas More. He was mocking the idea of a Eutopia, which would literally be a "happy place".

Either way, this all feels far more like dystopia - so I suppose the answer to the question, intended or not, is yes - we are indeed on the road to nowhere.