The trouble with "utopias"

so called, is that they are obsessed with consumption in the same way a dystopia is. Production is viewed as a necessary (even if not necessarily undesirable) evil to facilitate consumption. All planning is toward streamlining and mechanising the production process. Traditional u- and dys-topias (both hereafter referred to singularly as dys-topias) view consumption of the end product as the justification for its existence.

What's the opposite? Before we give it a name, let's define it. In stark contrast, whatever is on the other side of consumption-obsession is something devoted to the idea that we are made first to produce, to create, to share, to give, to make — an activity that justifies consumption. Something that claims the consumption is simply a means to that end. What fuels the creative, regenerative process must be consumed, otherwise, it lets things be.

In dystopias, nothing is safe from the eventual lust to satisfy appetite. Because the focus is on consuming, dystopian members are at constant war with themselves: the desire to destroy (ingest, digest, burn, oxidize

Dystopias work with entropy, heaven replenishes the order entropy feeds on.

Entropy may not be the enemy, but it is the force working opposite to the creative power of gods and men. Utopias join the work of breaking down, while this other thing's sole motivation is to build up.