Nor you neither society was made for “perfect”. As Dostoevsky outlined through his book “Notes from the Underground” we are who we are, there is something in the human nature (and therefore the societies we create reflecting our collective goals and values ) that defies logic and common sense. There is a deep, dark hellish facet in, a self-defying stance that stands as an opposite for the pursuit of perfection. While we’re pursuing it and striving to make things better, something inside wants to destroy it at the same time. As he said, if you give people pure utopia the first thing they’d do is find something to smash it with. And this is the truth. Have you ever bought a new toy for a kid and watched his excitement peak until the fulfillment of a final mission – when the child breaks it. There is temporary annoyance by a broken toy, but no real distress. The breaking is somehow an experiment on the nature of things, and exploration to see how far the gadget can go. Once you know you have no more need to use it as it was meant to be used.

Why do we have this perverse interest in destruction, why can’ we just be happy in our little utopia, why do we revel in change and complexity, shifts and tribulations? Because being content and happy all the time is void, there is nothing to strive for, there is nothing to search for or invest time and effort in if everything has just been given. It’s a lazy place and becomes a prison by its own comfort. As a species we were designed to thrive through exploration, to search for the unknown, to analyses and try to figure things out and compete with other communities in it. This does not exclude altruism, it just means that our fundamental instinct is to fight for what we find worthy and it becomes worthy exactly because you have to fight for it. If nothing requires real effort all things are worth equally and over the long term become worthless.

You might enjoy your given utopia at first, but just as a rest stop from what you do best –fight. Soon you’d be bored out of your mind and find a way to break something just so you can fix it. There is no relationship to a system, yourself or others that can thrive without having some flaws and friction in it. Yes you are flawed, so am I, so are most things we see, and that’s a good thing. Overcoming of flaws, getting closer to the idea of perfect but never quite there is what we do here. The grass might look greener in “perfect” but there are no bugs in it because it’s made out of plastic – not real.