Excerpt: "RISE OF THE OMITOPIA" (A.GLASS 2020)

"...although we are still facing the pandemic, may need to be studied, not just in a philosophical sense, but the widespread structural implications of what I deem a “Omnitopia”.   A city concept, its structural manifestation that represents both the pessimistic and optimism of our survival within the tumultuousness of existence

In the series of The Simulacrum of Utopian Decay, we looked at the idealism that what has occurred is a recopying, in a evolving process, of Utopian ideas from three points in time, the 1800's Utopian socialists, 1950's pragmatic consumption and the concept of being liberated by technology advancement through to entrepreneurial aspects of the 1990's – pre the digital networks.  Rather than what could be perceived, in a fictional concept, as evolving into what is hypothesized to be a dystopic landscape, it is all but an illusion of gentrification, with it being underpinned from a fragile global economic system with an over abundance of money supply directed into the machinations that is croynism.  And it was the Utopian idealisms of social media expansion, that gave a feigned promise of egalitarianism from the cross feeds of credit and rapid paced information.  Without simplifying the reasons or saying that they solely have lead to a decay of Utopian ideas, what is known now, as this pandemic has spread around the world at a unprecedented rate, undoubtedly, as viruses throughout history have done in their course, changed a society – and usually the virus serves as the catalyst.  However, looking back into the past to assess what this change could be, would not be an easy task, sans the sentiment, in the historic context, is always the same, the pressure that a general populous has to endure from this micro entity as it cripples nations..."

"RISE OF THE OMITOPIA" (A.GLASS JULY 2020)  Full article: https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/search?q=rise+of+the+omitopia