Text based art on the problem with idealism and ideal worlds.

’Your ideal world isn’t the same as my ideal world.’

The problem with thinking that you’ve cracked it when it comes to imagining what the ideal world would be like is that your ideal world probably isn’t the same as someone else’s ideal world. And that someone else probably wouldn’t want to live in your ideal world anymore than you’d want to live in their ideal world.Is Donald Trump’s ideal world the same as your ideal world? Maybe not. Or maybe it is.

Maybe your ideal world involves everyone having access to unlimited amounts of free alcohol. Maybe my ideal world involves alcohol being outlawed. They can’t both exist on the same planet.

The thing about ideal worlds is that they tend to be thought up by idealists, and idealists tend not to like the messiness that’s inevitable in life, which is why they are idealist in the first place, seeking a smooth, frictionless perfection to existence .
Me, I’ve given up idealism and now embrace the messiness. It’s much more relaxing.

Ideal worlds are unattainable anyway. By their very nature they are ridiculously over simplistic and are riddled with concepts that are veritable ’unintended consequence bombs’.

Here’s an example. Fittingly, it’s an over simplistic example. Imagine an ideal world where the sun shines all day long everyday. Sounds great, especially from where I’m living, where it’s more likely to rain all day long. But wait! If the sun shines all day long then there’s no rain, ever. Without rain, without water, everything dies. Not an ideal world after all then.