Walden Two Is An Ideal Utopian Society

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Walden two! I think most of people were thought utopian society. Walden two is a wonderful life, but it is too dramatic in our reality world. As for me, the Utopian’s concept means “imagination” and “perfection”. People were born to have an ability under the perfect political life; people live in a just political life, but also, people are rebellion, because they escape the injustice political reality. So, I will say that people may enjoy the utopian society but couldn’t keep longer. I will believe utopian could not overcome reality. For example, if people will get everything easily, they will not appreciate those gifts which gained from society because this is ID. We cannot change our ID because it comes from pleasure principle. And also,

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