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Of Souls, Systems, Beings, and Beasts

MiguelRodriguez317

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Reads 108
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Parts 4
Time 1h 28m

MiguelRodriguez317

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Panopticon is an ideal utopian world where balance, order and progress reign supreme. Every inhabitant has a precise purpose and role that generates meaning through contribution to the whole. 

While want for nothing and death is a choice, something vital is missing.

A perfect world on the surface, Panopticon lacks deeper truths, freedom and spirit that enrich existence. 

Though meant to inspire, purpose feels hollow and life feels lifeless, stagnant and unfree. Growth seems forced rather than profound.

Power over life itself yields control but not insight or compassion. Interconnectedness feels superficial rather than profound. A sense of wonder and mystery is absent.

Though there are guardians, regulators, sustainers, counselors and minimalists ensuring prosperity, stability and preventing threats foreign or domestic, something lacks. A soul or heart to make endurance and longevity feel wholly joyful and meaningful.

The machinery of utopia runs like clockwork but extremes of love, faith, passion and creativity are nowhere to be found. 

Purpose and order prevail over transcendence and spirit. Sacrificing deeper truths for worldly comfort and balance.

An ideal world without spirit, Panopticon points to the costs of utopia. A warning against purpose that generates meaning merely through contribution alone, rather than purpose found in and of itself. 

A world that makes want for nothing but needs something more: a sense of wild and spirited freedom to inspire. A love that fuels the the fire that provides warmth to any life.

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