Utopians give hope to world

There are beings so modest as to seem invisible, and so indefinite is their persona as to seem they are not there at all. Like some disembodied spirit, a ghost in fact - if such a thing as a ghost can be called a fact.

But so deceptive are Utopians that they are thought unworldly and ineffective to realists, yet realists ought to be idealists, for only idealists have vision. The vision to see what the creator intended when he commanded mankind to "subdue the earth".

Mankind, or rather the Utopians among them, understood his words and could see a way to use implements of war to promote peace. Utopians would use explosives to blast roads through mountains, terrace hill slopes so that vines and other crops could grow. Cut canals through arid desert and irrigate terrain.

They would provide sanctuary havens for displaced folk and provide security from wars and famine, which, paradoxically, is causing population growth!

Utopians are so effective, yet unassuming. They could be compared to the yeast that leavens the dough. You will hardly notice of Utopians, so modest and unassuming are they, but so long as they are there, there is hope for this world.

Dick Perkins, Telford