Utopia

Today in socratic we talked about the perfect society, and as we talked about it, I realized that I've already written about it...kind of. I wrote more about the perfect city (it's titled The Future). What we talking about was the people and how they interact. Many of the comments made reminded me about a book called the Host (by Stephenie Meyer). In the Host, there's an Alien race which considers themselves perfect and conquers other soceities to make them perfect (their idea of perfection is peace and non-violence and as long as you're doing your part you have access to the things you need to survive).

In our class, we figured it's impossible for society to be perfect. If we have free will, people are bound to make wrong decisions. If we have a dictatorship, that's not really the best way to live.

What do you guys think is the perfect society?

Colors

In Socratic, Mr. Dye has asked us to write about a color without using the color. Below I'll be doing just that. First, two questions. Can you guess the color I'm writing about? And what color does this make you think of?

I am triumph; I am pain.
I am the heat of a passionate heart.
I am the smell of a lost loved one.
I am strength in every living thing.
I am the aftermath of ravenous conflicts.
I am fear; I am might.
I am the perseverance of the ones believe in victory.
I am the anger of the shattered soul.
I am the fear of walking alone in the night.
I am revenge.

Japan and Korea

So in Socratic today, we were talking about the influences China had on old time Japan and we read about how Japan got it's government from China. What if, Japan decided to copy China's government in the 50's? The world would be way different, like, Japan probably wouldn't have robots and America probably wouldn't have a bunch of other cool stuff. What do you guys think?