Utopia Now: Housing Project/Organization

I plan on putting this on a website that I will reveal later. LATER ADDED: The site never contacted me with registration confirmation.
Also Later Added: When there is ever a 2 or more sides to an argument/issue then there will be an argument between people and potentially even wars. The fact is that there is only ever 1 correct side to an argument, and that is the one based on fact, and all other sides of the argument are either based on feeling or lack of education. So to have a true utopia society there has to always only be only one sided arguments/issues so that there are never enough numbers on both sides of the issue to cause the argument to grow big enough to cause wars. This ideal situation is never possible in the real world, because there are always uneducated people and also human emotions that interfere with logical thinking. So the following "utopia now" post, is from now on, not intended for a whole society and can only ever be useful on a small scale personalized utopia, if you choose to live with these technologies. Because a true large scale society spanning utopia will never be possible in a universe that is naturally imperfect.

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• “Utopia” is defined by me as: When your lifestyle cannot meaningfully progress any further than it is at now, based on the laws of physics. This means acquiring only the best technologies with attributes that can no longer be improved upon based on physical law. Or sometimes you have to settle for current technology, which hasn't progressed to perfection yet.
  

• This is also based on the assumption that something close to heaven on earth is possible with modern technology, if we can only get around bad people. And it is an ongoing research and development program to create a better and better utopia. With better and better technologies. And the end goal is to have the best of all worlds, and to not sacrifice standard of living in any way. With all new ideas validated or not validated by the scientific method. Ideally no more need to work(let robots do the work), infinite free energy(to tailor the environment you live in to be perfection, using fusion or other energies, like antimatter), no more need for money(so that it doesn't get stolen), and to live forever(with the help of medical technology).
  

• None of these ideas are patentable inventions because they've all already been invented and I'm just using them as illustrations to make this new utopia realistic in the real world. And they are only suggested technologies to make this most preliminary of versions of utopia plausible by use of already existing technology. And all of these technologies suggested to make this utopia work, are all only suggestions. That can probably be improved upon in the future, with better technologies. Or the technologies noted can be replaced with different technologies based on your own personal preferences of what your utopia would include.

• First thing is to provide the housing for the people, which can be made as a totally adobe brick house that is connected within the bricks by wood or metal support structure. This type of structure is extremely easy to build and has extremely low materials costs. And adobe and metal are fire proof. And adobe has extremely good heat retention properties that make it warm at night and cool during the day, but for extremely cold climates you can add spray foam to the inside as extra insulation. But making the clay for the adobe is easy, it can be separated from any dirt anywhere by stirring any dirt in with water, very thoroughly, and letting the particles of dirt settle and then letting the water dry out. And what you are left with is the clay(the smallest particles if dirt) having settled to the top. Just building a good old fashioned adobe house of any kind is just as compatible with use in a utopia, and any information on how to build an adobe style house can be easily and quickly found on the internet. But remember to water proof the adobe with paint because adobe isn't waterproof. And also keep in mind other safety precautions when building and living in the house.
• Other types of houses use spray foam, or concrete, or a geodesic dome, and half of the house can be located below ground level for the good temperature moderation qualities.
  

• People living in these houses can learn to provide mostly for themselves, by learning to grow food, by gardening. Or learning to make, distilled alcohol, which is a good disinfectant and solvent; not to drink. Make your own drinking water with a solar still or artificial aquifer. Or you can disinfect large quantities of water with chlorine. But to get a water source where there previously was none, you could dig a pit, at a low low point on a property, which water naturally collects in. And also learn to repair things like clothes, mechanical devices, and your house.

• The vehicle of choice in utopia, which includes the best of all worlds, would be an all electric vehicle. Because with new battery technologies coming out, every day, and the old but perfect AC induction motors, it is now possible to make the lowest maintenance highest performance car ever out of all electric. And to power the car, you can just plug it into your solar panels at home, or have electric solar power stations by the road. Ultra capacitors are the enabling technology. You can buy solar panels with the money saved, from not buying gas.
  

• For plumbing, the human waste can either be chemically treated with chlorine and CLR septic. Or the human waste can just be burned in a high heat rocket stove, with a chimney for air flow to feed the fire, using Bernoulli's principle. Modern sewage treatment requires awesome mega structures that require lots of money to build and upkeep, but simple small scale solutions are possible, and just as effective. Even solar pasteurizers, if you can make one that works.
  

• The lighting for houses within 10 years(now it's 2008) will be OLED, or Organic Light Emitting Diodes, which can cover an entire ceiling as a sheet, and at very low cost when mass produced. This is all because LED's last indefinitely without replacement and are the most efficient artificial light source possible (90% efficient at converting electrons into photons). And it pays for itself in the long run. This technology is already in cell phone displays and in prototype televisions, that are battery powered, yet they still have the best picture quality ever created. But only rich people can buy them at the moment.
  

• You could learn to make your own furniture by yourself, out of wood, to furnish your own house. And the feeling of accomplishment from building your own furniture, could be a good enough reason to do it. Or another option is to have inflatable furniture, for less cleaning of dust, and less dust mites, and very easy to transport furniture if you happen to move.
  

• Communication would still be done with cell phones in utopia. But the reason for paying a phone bill is only a human construct, because it’s all automated now, with hardly any actual need to service telephone networks anymore. It’s mostly done by transistors and satellites and base stations and cell towers, with only very few maintenance crew, which are only needed during lightning strikes. But in a small town you can always use "walkie talkies" most of the time, unless it’s a long distance call of course. Which is perfect for a small scale utopia. Satellite phones and satellite internet are also available now, if you travel.
  

• Cooking could be done on a rocket stove, either made out of clay or tin cans. Or a wood burning oven with a thermometer. Or just a barbecue. But electric cooking is still good if you have a good power supply.
  

• There are many types of refrigerators, thermo-acoustic, solar powered ice box, vortex tubes(needs to be sound proof). But also you can smoke your meat, and grow fresh fruits and vegetables, year round, in a greenhouse, with florescent artificial sun lights. And up north, the outside or the permafrost can serve as a refrigerator.
  

• Trash is not a big problem if you don't buy things with packaging, and any organic trash can always just be composted.

• Personal hygiene is important in any civilized society. But there is always more than one way of doing the same thing. If you don't want to waste lots of water, and spend energy to heat it, and have nowhere to put the dirty water when done using it, then an alternative would be to use a rag soaked in some warm soapy water, which they do in log cabins in alaska. But also you can make your own “wet wipes” out of alcohol soaked rags. Alcohol is a solvent and disinfectant, and therefor also a self cleaning liquid. Include lemon scent into it to get rid of any odors. You can produce your own alcohol from any fermented fruit, which you later distill, because fruits naturally already have wild yeast in them. But the remaining things such as shampoo and deodorant are still the best at doing what they do. So they should be done the same way as they always have been. The benefits of these forms of personal hygiene are: (1) no plumbing needed,(2) no need for large quantities of clean water,(3) not as much need for waste treatment of shower water,(4) independence from utility prices.
  

• For cleaning clothes, there are now ionizing types of washing machines, that have already been made, that use no soap and that also reuse the water over and over again. which is an alternative to using a bucket of soapy water with a clean plunger to agitate the clothes.

• For no war, my theory is that all fights are started by someone liking something too much and the other person disliking that same thing too much. In other words “The clash of extreme likes and dislikes”. So if one person weren’t so adamant about disliking that thing so much, or the other person wasn’t so adamant about liking it so much, there would never have been an argument. Case in point: Cows don’t fight with us about having to live in a small field their whole lives because they don’t dislike it enough to fight about it. So the goal is to not have extreme likes and dislikes, and to sweat the small stuff. And also to stay away from controlling people that start arguments. But when there’s no more improvement possible, I.E. in a utopia, then there will finally be nothing left to fight about, because there will be no better life to have to fight for.

• The economy of utopia would be "macro scale tribal egalitarianism". Which is simply stated as: “If I help my friends out, then they will help me out”.

• In a new theoretical society, that wouldn't need money, you would instead have stockpiles of goods and services that everyone pooled, and was able to share as long as they kept doing there part of contributing to the world goods stockpile, by working the same amount of hours as everybody else. This is in a sense "job sharing", or distributing jobs throughout the population based on how many people are required for that job.
  

For education, you would go to school for free for whatever job you most wanted to perform. Otherwise it would be on the job training if you didn't get in the way of other people during critical tasks. You would learn 4 hours per day while the teachers taught for 4 hours per day. The incentive for getting good grades would be that you wanted to live in society, by working as much as others. Because if you didn't work then you'd be kicked out of society, so it might as well be doing what you enjoy doing. That's why you train to do what you want to do.

Some jobs require more manpower like the medical industry or house building construction, so more of a percentage of society would be allocated to those tasks than to other tasks, so that everyone still shared the same 4 hour or less work day.

Each person works a 4 hour day, or so, in society, and there are different percentages of society allocated to each job field of society. For medical there is a lot more of a percentage of the population than other job feilds have, because you need: researchers, physicians, teachers, medical technology manufacturers, and medical technology engineers. So for just a rough example, you'd have out of 100% of the population of earth, 25% would be medical, 20% would be food industry, 10% would be engineers, and maybe 1% would be garbage duty, with all other job categories filling the rest of the 100% of earth's population. But everyone still only works a 4 hour day.

Because of no more need for national defense, form no more wars, military and police would now merge into 1 job description.

Having luxury items(such as entertainment or toys) means that you need people to produce those luxury items, which means that everybody in society has to work more in order to support that new sector of the population that is now producing luxury items for everybody. So in utopia you may choose less work over more luxury items. Or the other way around is possible also.

Some jobs are intermittent in work requirements and you may be on call and have to report to work at irregular times. Also people make items, then they are stockpiled somewhere and supplied to everyone as they are needed as replacements (as in when the item breaks or is used up). And when they run out of that item in the stockpile, then you get a call to go into work again, to make some more of that item, after your break from working.

If someone won't cooperate by producing things or they are always starting pointless fights. Then you can kick them out because if they won't follow the rules then they don't get the benefits of organized society. This may be impossible to avoid with humans always having different opinions about what their utopia would be. So there may still be different nations for different versions of utopia. Which may mean that there would still be war also, if people still can't agree on things.

So a good way to visualize this society is: If you treated it in the same as you'd treat your own family. Like on old homesteads in the 1800’s you would stockpile food after growing it yourself, and parcel it out equally among the family. And you’d stockpile clothes, or supplies that you made and give them to the family or trade with your own family without money or paperwork involved. And the whole family had to do their part, or earn their keep, or else they’d be kicked out of the house. But everyone in the family still worked the same exact hours per day as everyone else, even if it was a lot of hours- Which all is done in the same way that the hypothetical utopia is done.

• The only reason that you don’t want to use money, is because it has value, and therefore it would get stolen eventually. So if nothing had value, or alternately could not be sold for money, then you would never have stealing. In reality all things don’t really have value, unless we as humans imagine a value. But you could just as easily give your spare things to others who are your friends, or spend your extra time helping friends for free, or spend your time teaching others to make their own stuff. This is essentially free trade without the need for money within your town. And for now this would only be one small scale town with this prototype society, as a test town, only to be able to validate this economic structure.

• And also you’d want people that would follow the main rule of: “Don’t try to control other people that didn’t agree to be controlled”. Or in other words, only have people that can get along with each other. And any other problems can be solved by the scientific method.

• But if this lifestyle isn’t your cup of tea, just remember that this way of living may be just as viable as any other way of living. And can always be altered to fit your own personal needs. Case in point: The cave men had just as viable a way of surviving as we do today, as shown by the fact that they survived and we’re sitting here right now. It's just a matter of how high of a standard of living you have, or even just what you personally consider a higher standard of living. And is it so great to have to work more than any other society in history just to keep up our standard of living? And is modern society the greatest standard of living in the end?
  

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