Being towards death

Plato once told a horrifying story: in the distant golden age, humans were perfect, appearing as a perfect circle. However, this greatly displeased Zeus, who swung his axe and split humans in half, thus making them incomplete.
In order to regain that perfect state, humans have always been searching for their other half, and this search is called love.
Plato seems to be discussing love, but in fact, he raises the ultimate question that humanity has been pondering for thousands of years: why do humans pursue a perfect society, why do they strive to build a utopia? The Western fascination with utopia is closely linked to apocalyptic religions. Apocalyptic religions themselves are religions that pursue perfection, and they firmly believe that the world is the creation of the Creator.
Because the Creator is perfect, the things created by the Creator must also be perfect. This belief has led to the Western desire for utopia surpassing any other civilization. In apocalyptic religions, only by finding utopia can one return to the Garden of Eden and make up for the shortcomings of humanity.
Utopia is based on the basic assumption that there once existed a perfect society in ancient times, which was broken for certain reasons. Therefore, as long as it can be redeemed, it can return to that perfect state. This idea of going from perfection to brokenness and then returning to perfection runs through the entire European civilization and has influenced many fields such as metaphysics, politics, and philosophy, becoming the core of Western civilization. The Enlightenment movement pushed this pursuit of perfection to the extreme. The Enlightenment movement held high the banner of reason, believing that as long as humans use reason, they can create a perfect world.
Science can conquer nature, and human nature can be integrated into a unified order. As long as reason is strong enough, people can establish a utopia. Under the influence of the utopian trend, the radical politicians of the 20th century began to pursue their own utopias. World War I, World War II, the Cold War, etc. were all the practice of utopia in the world. In the 20th century, it took humans 100 years to prove that utopia does not exist, so why doesn't it exist? Simply because utopia is built on static human nature and lacks rich imagination about human nature. It believes that human nature can be like natural objects, existing in a unified state and can be integrated into a unified goal.
Once this goal is achieved, human nature will be completely unified, forming a unified human nature, a unified society, everything will be perfect and flawless, and a perfect human society does not require innovation. Therefore, utopia is a static society.
Hegel and his disciples hold this view. They believe that history is a process of reaching the perfect end point, a one-dimensional evolution of humanity from barbarism to reason. Although they admit that the development of history is filled with struggles and conflicts, they firmly believe that one day these problems will be perfectly solved.
In Hegel's view, the way to solve them is the dialectical development of the world spirit; in the view of Hegel's disciples, it is the elimination of class exploitation and the infinite development of technology. They believe that although the conflicts of history are inevitable, and the process of history is ups and downs, history must have a perfect ending. However, anti-utopians believe that this fantasy of utopia can never be realized, and utopia is like a mirage, inherently contradictory in its underlying logic. Because the value and meaning of human society cannot be unified, it is based on the diverse human nature of humanity and cannot be unified under a certain order.
Although humans are the creations of the Creator, they are endowed with free will at the time of creation, and under the influence of free will, human nature cannot be unified. Therefore, a perfect society is not unified under a certain order, but displays the diverse wills of different individuals.
The values and talents of humans are diverse, and utopia seeks to erase the differences in human nature, eliminate the differences between people, deprive them of diverse human nature, and stifle diverse values. Utopia is not the Garden of Eden, but a lifeless, dead human hell. No matter how rational and imaginative the order advocated by utopia is, it distorts human nature because utopia erases life itself. Kant said, "Human nature, this crooked timber of humanity, can never produce anything straight." In Kant's view, human nature is rich and diverse, and the diversity of values is just like the thousands of trees in the natural world, but none of them are exactly the same.
Human nature cannot be unified, and society can never have a perfect solution. This is not only impossible in reality, but also inherently impossible.
Therefore, any dream or delusion of utopia will only bring endless disasters to human society.