The UTOPIA Equilibrium

By Lelanthran Krishna Manickum

Man had solved his food problem by making sure that the majority of people had no need to grow their own food[Agricultural Revolution]. Man had solved the meat problem in a similar way[Animal Husbandry]. Survival problems solved, man had gone on to refine everyone into a specialist role, to get the most out of those that were freed from gathering and hunting. With Mankinds ingenuity it was not long before the existence of specialists lead to even more people being freed from chores, and thus was born commerce. That commerce lead to even more people freed from having to expend effort to sustain themselves, which lead to actual invention of machines[Industrial Revolution], which lead to even more people with free time on their hands, which lead to abstract math and philosophy[Digital Revolution], which lead to even more people with ever more free time on their hands ... It seems that society, in the process of trying to find a use for everyone in society, had simply resulted in even more people with free time.

- excerpt from book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lelanthran Krishna Manickum
• Release date: Nov 22, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465872456

Lelanthran Krishna Manickum

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The Utopia Equilibrium

©Lelanthran Krishna Manickum

November 2011

Smashwords Edition

"uto·pia

often capitalized : a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions"

- The Merriam-Webster Dictionary

The state of UTOPIA was a goal ever since man first learned speech and communication. There was a word for UTOPIA before there was a word for wheel, before man first discovered agriculture and animal husbandry. A blissful state where everyone would have food, and everyone would be free of disease, and where no one ever wanted for anything. Every revolution and age of enlightenment experienced by humans had been accompanied by the hope that we have finally attained this remarkable trophy.

The Upper Paleolithic Revolution was the first step towards UTOPIA. It was the shift in thinking that every individual lived and died alone, or in small groups. The Upper Paleolithic Revolution changed all this; it brought us a social structure that accompanies us to this day. It gave us the social structure that made mankind alone thrive over every other creature in existence. It gave us