Re: Times Article
In interviews, Mr. Obama was modest and careful. (In a rare slip, he told The Associated Press: “I’m not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me.”)
In contrast, the Utopianstates is totally fascinated by the suburbs and the middle class. The opulently wealthy can form their own perverted utopias. The poor should be handled by assimilation into the ways of the middle class. The middle class is where Utopia will emerge once government suppression is eliminated and a common voice emerges.
During the last decade, the median family income in the USA has been around $40,000 per year while the average income has been around $100,000. The average income is higher than the median income because the mega millionaires and billionaires skew the average so significantly. It is mathematically possible to have a Utopian city-state where median income is $60,000 while the average income is still $100,000. Now the poor can join the middle class lifestyle even with an income of only $40,000. There must be some income differential in order to reward the productive people.
Utopian city-states politically would select their representatives via a lottocracy. The leaders would be selected without the advocacy of any political party (no fixed agenda). Government would be designed, as McCain suggested in the second debate, by forming a group of the best and brightest minds to write a proposal which would be then voted up or down by congress. Government would not be designed ad-hoc, but planned intelligently. The Utopian constitution would be based on the philosophy that the only purpose of government is only to protect and maximize the natural and human rights of every citizen.
The attempt would be to make the Utopian City-states a fun place to live. Boys that grew up with an interest in sports could make a living in field of their interest. The Utopian city-states would endeavor that everybody be able to make a living in the field of their interest. Since the median and minimum family incomes are higher and jobs are more abundant, more effort could be made to make life fun and challenging with fewer financial crises. After all, the only game in town shouldn’t be the accumulation of wealth with deadly consequences for those that make a mistake or are overly suppressed.
Get on board. The suburbs and the middle class are where the fun and the challenge is.