Utopia, again

But is utopia viable or even tolerable for its alleged beneficiaries? Set aside the problem of who actually does the work to keep the whole system running, who makes decisions at which points and so on... If you think you've got everything you've ever wanted and everything you ever will want, then is it too radical to suggest that you may in fact be talking to a robot, or a machine of some persuasion? Could a genuine human being, with anyone's wants, cares, concerns, distractions - warts and all - be convinced of its own timeless perfection? Would we not want something more, something the present Utopia in all its glory cannot yet provide? Dreaming beyond the horizon, we may yet invent fresh needs for ourselves which render the current condition inadequate. Intolerable, even. Would we be persuaded by arguments about built-in correctives? It's easy to see what might be corrected in ourselves, perhaps, on something like a situational basis. Frequently enough it informs the substance of what we might call ethics. But what remains to be corrected that transcends the individual? This is the type of challenge Utopia attempts to address, and about which there is, unfortunately, scant empirical evidence.