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Fred Hutchison September 14, 2004
By Fred Hutchison
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/hutchison/040914
Utopia: The perpetual delusion of the Left
By Fred Hutchison
When I was eighteen I knew that the left is generally deceived. It required a few years to find out what the core delusion was but many years to appreciate how radical is the lie they believe and why it leads to so much deception. The idealism of the left is based upon the romantic delusion that "progress" is inevitable and is leading us to a future utopia. Utopia is a romantic fantasy of a perfect future secular society on earth built by man with God left out. The cruel delusion of utopia is responsible for many of the twentieth century disasters such as brutal dictatorships, major wars, countless atrocities, and destructive revolutionary movements.
Why is utopia a false hope? Original sin. We are born contaminated by the nature of sin. All parts of our human nature are infected and corrupted. Such beings are constitutionally incapable of utopia. Yet, against all reason, experience and common sense many hope for an impossible utopia. Perhaps utopia is a substitute for heaven in a post Christian secular society.
Catastrophic Utopias
Attempts at utopia almost always have catastrophic results. Why is this? Utopias always turn out to be totalitarian in the end. There are no restraints on the power or the impulses of the rulers. If man is inherently good, as the left believes, and the revolutionary leaders are god-like beings, as utopian regimes invariably assert, why restrain their powers?
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