The Utopium Website

This website hopes to help the introduction and development of original ideas and alternative perspectives. It wishes to act as an intellectual incubator and help people present, and be presented with, new thoughts. 

Because of, or in spite of today’s ease of communication, it is very hard and time consuming to simply put out a new idea and get a quick, honest, and helpful response. Those that are often best at providing the proper feedback are typically so “busy” that they hardly have time to read other people’s material, and particularly ideas that are not mainstream or outside their discipline or narrow focus of interest. Most serious scientific avenues such as magazines and books are slow and hard to publish and are in effect blocked to most outsiders and alternative approaches. Thus, this website hopes to act as a platform/podium/salon where people can quickly and easily present an idea to an intelligent audience and get helpful feedback. Through it, they have a rare opportunity to discuss their ideas in order to evaluate their viability, potential and originality at an early stage and help to develop these ideas in their infancy.  

Along with our current ease of communication we have a sudden access to an infinite amount of information. However, yet again, it is very hard, rare and time consuming, to search, find, and sort out, good new original ideas. Accordingly, this website also wishes to provide researchers and thinkers a concentrated and easily accessible but diversified pool of good new and free ideas in the spirit of “Free Source” and cooperation. These can be used and incorporated into existing thought, trigger new alternative ideas, or point to preexisting conceptual constellations that one might not want to repeat unintentionally. 

Last but not least, such a meeting ground can help people connect with other thinkers of similar interests, approaches, and styles of thinking for future and more in-depth collaboration. 

The aim is to communicate in a very concise but clear manner so as to minimally tax the already busy schedules of the participants. It is critical for the intellectual reactions to be honest, polite, and helpful so as to present constructive criticism aimed at helping the evaluation and development of ideas rather than being competitive, aggressive, possessive or have an attitude that blocks the conversation instead of helping it to flow and improve.  

Initial discussion topics will surround issues that are common to both philosophy and psychology but are open to expansion based on the interest of the participants.  Discussion topics can include political, economic and social issues, and eventually might--and perhaps should--aim to help social objectives. However, the primary hope for this website is to establish a platform for sophisticated intellectual and theoretical ideas, concepts and perspectives.  It is not intended to forward a particular political, social, or spiritual agenda, nor is it aimed at discussing personal issues, presenting anecdotes, forwarding personal careers, presenting moral or spiritual experiences or guidance, or servicing any specific business or technical interests. This website is not aimed at high popularity, size, participation, exposure, fame, profits or power. It is also not established as a new institution with its restrictions, obligations, animosities and wishes for expansion and perpetuation. The hope is to encourage more quality instead of quantity by emphasizing originality, creativity, sophistication, and friendly cooperation. The ultimate hope is to improve wisdom instead of just information and knowledge through the development of new ideas which will hopefully lead to improved actions, systems, values, etc. This type of Utopian thinking is not aimed at an ultimate fixed Utopia but is thought of as an ongoing process which will hopefully encourage and generate helpful thoughts, actions, designs, and modifications to improve nature and society and guide them towards more promising avenues and directions. 

Participation is open to all, but each participant must register with the Society for communication purposes as well as for ensuring proper participation and conversation protocols. The material presented in the Society is open to all to read. However, people who want to post ideas on the website will have to also commit to reading and responding in a helpful manner to other people’s ideas.