Mind's Eye Modern Utopia

Utopia means something like 'the ideal that is nowhere' - the word is
sprung with irony. Many decent ideas are derided as Utopian, much as
whistle-blowers soon become incompetent malcontents. I don't believe
there is a modern world - we are still largely dark age. Most people
can't offer much explanation why science is more rational than
godswank or a sales pitch. Even I see little difference between the
physics pornography of the big bang and the origins of our main
religions. Doing science was always liberation from dogma for me,
with the end of getting to what works.

A modern world would be scientific, but there's a catch. Most people
can't do it (at least as we teach and practice it) and the Frakenstein
fear probably dominates in the majority. Say Einstein and most will
trot out E = MC2 - his work isn't about this. Most people don't know
about the pollen grains, let alone the tensor equations and his
reconciliation of the great work of Maxwell and apparently
contradictory experimental evidence.

A modern society would organise around scientific estimates of what
work we need to do. My own guess is this would be about 6 hours/2
days a week/9 months a year/40 year span. One has to wonder why we
don't have a proper estimate of this that takes modern technology into
account. My guess is based on agriculture being 7% of world GDP and
75% being 'services'. I suspect essential work is about 30% of what
we call work.

This leads me, with other matters, to think we have not established a
welfare state at all. A real one would be about us all contributing
equally towards creating decent living conditions for all and doing
this essential work as a duty to each other and the planet. The rest
of my Utopia follows from this and the rest of the economy would be
based on producing/doing what interests us.

Pie in the sky?

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