Utopian Ideal

Let us briefly summarize the terrain we have traveled. Whereas the Western notion of utopian striving provides a sense of hope and the will to act, the impossibility of actualizing the utopian ideal also invites fanatical devotion to delusional pursuit. We can see this pattern playing out vividly in our contemporary culture, where an unbridled commitment to consumerism promises a happiness that it cannot deliver, and in a cognitive neuroscience program that illogically assumes that continuing to track the neural correlates of consciousness will eventually explain how consciousness arises from the brain (a notion whose metaphysical tenuousness is obscured by institutional blindsight).
Both of these contemporary forms of misguided striving are rooted in the same materialist …show more content…
Although this particular form of utopian idealism was defeated, its root problems remained unaddressed such that its legacy lives
on