Utopia?

This week was a rather odd week because we only had class on Monday, so I will discuss the reading of "Utopia" by Saint Thomas More. I'm going to have to be completely honest and say that I really couldn't understand most of what he was saying, but I will comment on my thoughts about this idea of Utopia. We have been discussing Utopian movements in Western Civilization II as well, so I feel I am getting this ideology drilled into my mind, thankfully it's a very nice and optimistic theology. In a perfect world, the society that More describes would be ideal. A communal society, where there's no distinctions of class or violence, or disparity, is something all of us would want. It is this philosophy that Utopian thinkers used to create New Harmony, the "city on a hill", and all other metaphorical or real places created by these ideas. However, the sad reality to communal living, to Utopias, is that they rarely last long enough to be deemed successful. Taking out competition is like taking away a piece of humanity, while it would be great if all people could live up to the standards of these thinkers, most people succumb to the greed and jealousy of it all. This is why, in my opinion, communism can never truly work, because there will always be corruption. There will corruption in any form of government, because sadly the truth of it all is that there will always be some bad people.