Social Conditioning In My Utopian Society
At its most basic level of incorporation, social conditioning is actually essential to making any society work. In our own society, it is done organically through human interaction, as we are taught to act like those around us and follow a certain set of social expectations. However, social conditioning often has to be taken to an extreme level in literary utopian societies. In fact, it would not be possible for a utopian society to exist without social conditioning of some sort. This is because Utopias are an extremely delicate concept to begin with. In order to maintain a level of perfection, they have to rely on an exact structure of government and style of living in order to preserve their way of life.A giant threat against such a complex
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However, establishing productive ways to deal with conflict within the population would help to create a more perfect society. In my utopia, I would create a sort of counseling system. This system would be a network of the most empathetic and emotionally intelligent people from within the society. Counselors would be nominated at a young age based on their demonstration of desirable qualities, then trained by those who served before them. As counselors, their duties would consist of mediating arguments, diagnosing and treating mental illnesses and learning disorders, and generally being available to listen to peoples' problems or help them work through their own personal issues. Having a professional mediate disagreements would be much more productive than allowing people to handle them poorly and ruin or damage relationships. Treating and diagnosing both mental illnesses and learning disabilities would both improve quality of life for citizens and make society more productive; for example, those with ADHD would have a much easier time focusing on tasks after being treated. Finally, much of a society's tension tends to come from the fact that each individual is leading their own difficult life; even the lowest level farmer from More's utopia has to have some kind of stress that bothers him. Normally, people allow these personal stressors to affect them without ever mentioning it to anyone. However, with the counseling system in place, people would be able to vent about things that bother them and get their thoughts straight so that resentment and grudges will not affect them as intensely in their day to day
However, establishing productive ways to deal with conflict within the population would help to create a more perfect society. In my utopia, I would create a sort of counseling system. This system would be a network of the most empathetic and emotionally intelligent people from within the society. Counselors would be nominated at a young age based on their demonstration of desirable qualities, then trained by those who served before them. As counselors, their duties would consist of mediating arguments, diagnosing and treating mental illnesses and learning disorders, and generally being available to listen to peoples' problems or help them work through their own personal issues. Having a professional mediate disagreements would be much more productive than allowing people to handle them poorly and ruin or damage relationships. Treating and diagnosing both mental illnesses and learning disabilities would both improve quality of life for citizens and make society more productive; for example, those with ADHD would have a much easier time focusing on tasks after being treated. Finally, much of a society's tension tends to come from the fact that each individual is leading their own difficult life; even the lowest level farmer from More's utopia has to have some kind of stress that bothers him. Normally, people allow these personal stressors to affect them without ever mentioning it to anyone. However, with the counseling system in place, people would be able to vent about things that bother them and get their thoughts straight so that resentment and grudges will not affect them as intensely in their day to day