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Originally Posted by feynman

"A civilization without currency or organized government, based on self-responsibility and personal fulfillment/empowerment, where each is free to give their gifts for the benefit of all, living in balance with technology and nature, and where one's hightest achievement is personal expression and experience on the journey back to the creator."

It has a lot of SELF in it. I'm pretty sure that's not what was intended, it's just how I read it. Tweaking a few words would make it perfect. Having said that...

The world has never lacked utopian dreamers. Some efforts have succeeded for a while; some have never made it past the tavern door. We are presuming to hope for a Golden Age, with only the merest idea of how such a transition might actually take place.

It might be fruitful to brainstorm about this in the light of The Iron Mountain Report which only slightly tongue-in-cheek proclaims that war IS civilization, and that the problems of declaring peace are therefore nearly insurmountable.