WHAT IS UTOPIA

We are often told that everyone’s idea of utopia is different. We don’t think so. Imagine the best possible version of a prison, a hospital, or a school—you and someone else might describe different visions. But if both of you were about to be sent to one of them, your definitions would quickly begin to converge. Faced with reality, abstraction disappears. What remains is a shared, intuitive understanding of what “better” truly means.

Utopia, for us, is not perfection. It is a balance. We think of society through twelve fundamental values—like a curriculum. A society becomes utopian not when it is flawless, but when it maintains a high standard across all of them. If each value reaches a strong level—say, a consistent 15 out of 20—we enter utopian territory. Yet strangely, we accept that a dystopia can simply be a bad society, while a utopia is expected to be perfect. We reject that idea. Utopia is not perfection—it is sustained excellence across what matters.

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Once this becomes clear, another challenge appears: how do you spread such a way of seeing the world? How do you make people feel it, not just understand it? Through art. Cinema, music, stories—these are the languages that allow new perspectives to take root. Take a moment. Breathe. What you are witnessing is a future trying to emerge—like a tree breaking through the ground, fragile, but unstoppable.