Introduction

Welcome to this exploration of a North American Utopia.

Of course the word 'utopia' should not be considered in its pure form 'a perfect unchanging paradise' but rather in the context of a 'better place' or 'the best place we can build, given the natural tendencies of human nature.' This is what I'm talking about in this examination of building a utopia.

The project dates from April 2010, when I wrote a paper for a 400 level class in political theory at Concordia University. Although I have thought about the various component parts of the situation, that paper was the first serious holistic work I did on Utopia. Since then I have been researching and commenting on the many social, political and economic issues that need to be addressed.

This blog is being assembled to present an examination of the issues along with possible solutions. It is being placed into the context of a debate between two political camps A and B, each promoting their view of what utopia should be like. A few months ago I would have called the project fiction, because the idea of a serious debate, leading to real large scale change to our social structure was unlikely. However will the current world wide protests, linked to the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the possible economic disaster, linked to the debt loads of many nations, I feel that the shock required to get the establishment open to real debate and real change may be close at hand.