Eutopian Life: Why Utopian Rationality Created a Dystopian World — and How We Can Reconnect
How Modern Rationality Turned Progress into Collapse—and Why Re-rooting Is the Only Way Forward
We long for utopia.
But we wake up in dystopia.
Each day, we find ourselves more fragmented, exhausted, and disconnected. We chase progress as if it were salvation: more science, more technology, more control. The future stretches ahead like a straight line, drawn by reason and logic. We believe this path will save us.
But what if it’s the path itself—the rationality beneath it—that has brought us to the edge?
The Invisible Trap of Utopia
Utopia hasn’t failed for lack of progress.
It has failed because of how it conceives progress.
From the start, utopia was never simply a dream—it was a project. A rational ideal projected onto a distant horizon. And to reach it, reality must be reshaped, optimized, and engineered. Life becomes a system to perfect. People, nature, time—inputs in a rationally-designed master plan.
This is the hidden structure of modern rationality.
To defeat death.
To escape limits.
To master the Earth.
Even in the most well-meaning visions—from socialist utopias to Darwinian evolution—the logic remains: nature must be overcome. Progress demands domination.
The Logic of Domination
The rational utopia always promises liberation.
But it delivers control.
We thought we were mastering machines.
But now machines measure our worth.
We built systems to serve us—now we serve them.
Progress becomes acceleration.
Health becomes optimization.
Reason becomes exploitation.
This is not merely the result of neoliberalism. It is the culmination of a much older arc. Since the 15th century, science, economics, politics, and technology have converged into a single project: transform the world into a measurable, manageable system. A world of resources. Of users and interfaces. Of inputs and outputs. A world without mystery.
This is why dystopia isn’t a deviation from utopia—it is its logical conclusion.
Utopia, in the end, hatches a dystopia. Like a snake’s egg.
Another Possibility: Eutopian Life
But collapse is not the only path forward.
This book—Eutopian Life—proposes a reorientation.
Not a retreat into nostalgia or catastrophe, but a re-rooting in connection.
Eutopia is not a place to reach.
It is a mode of existence.
Not engineered, but lived.
It invites us to let go of the dream of mastery, and rediscover the art of dwelling.
To reinhabit the Earth not as conquerors, but as participants in a shared reality.
A world no longer split between subject and object.
No longer driven by conquest or control.
But shaped by care, reciprocity, and relationship.
To think again—not just to reason.
To live again—not just to function.
Not utopia.
But eutopia.
A life in balance with ourselves, with others, and with the living world.
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