I enjoy writing because it offers me the opportunity to create new worlds - but once I am actually trying to create a new but alien world, I find myself challenged and forced to re-examine ideas I'd taken for granted.

I have tried, a small number of times, to create an ideal society - not some form of Utopia, which is only possible for a population of one.

I keep coming up against the same problem, whatever the specie. For sapients to be healthy mentally, they must have freewill (as commonly meant, not as argued by scientists and philosophers). The moment freewill is tossed into the ring, out goes the possibility of achieving an ideal society.

The reason - well, the one I wish to use, is: It only needs one person to see the goodness of others as a weakness for them to exploit. That person will soon manage to corrupt a few more, for it is so tempting to choose to be an Elite... and the whole dream collapses.

I think that what mankind had been doing, before the Rothschilds, Masons, eugeniscists etc., interfered in the direction we are now set to taking, was the healthiest and sanest alternative.

Over thousands of years we have been evolving from brutish creatures to sensitive people. Thirty years ago people, by the millions would send money to charities for helping the starving. If we had used commerce and education to improve the lives of the poorer nations, I think we could have moved closer to becoming an ideal society.

A good example is Sweden. Because they have spent one or two generations in having certain beliefs, thanks to their attempts to establish an ideal society, they have been softened and blinkered in their ways of viewing the world and its harsh practicalities, (plus the important fact that people from other societies neither believe in the same kind of ideal society they are trying to create, nor want their children to be a part of it) and now, even when their existence, the existence and future of their children is threatened, they cannot respond in ways that could help ensure their survival. They cannot even see that sacrificing themselves so as to help those they are trying to help will not work, for the second their society collapses, those who have destroyed them will revert to living in conditions far worse than those they were "saved" from.

Unfortunately, because of our natures, we must never seek to achieve the ideal or an utopian ideal; we must strive to approach the best potential and then waver, fluctuating in tiny tremors as we continue to seek new ways of improving, or reject ideas we no longer believe in - but, we must never try to take the final step into creating an ideal society, for then, we will be compelled to enforce the rules that make us an ideal society, which in turn, denies us the right to consider ourselves an ideal society.