Creative Writing: Mars Essay, Research Paper

In today’s world, there exist many problems that affect the way human beings live their life. Human beings struggle through life, with a dream of high standards, which they try to pursue, but can not obtain. This form of hopefulness is called Utopia which the dictionary defines as: “having impossibly ideal conditions especially social organization; a place of ideal perfection in laws, government, and social conditions.” Every person has their own idea of an ideal community of perfection, but one that I believe could be and ideal community would be life on Mars. This perfect world can be achieved through societal values, living conditions, and the limitations on governmental control.

In a large community, Societal values are very important in that they create the moral values in which the human race bases all their decisions on. In a utopian society on Mars, everyone would treat each other equally. There would be no human greed which in majority, cause most of all world suffering. Everyone would care for each other and there would be no titles among the people. The community would act as one family, helping each other out during difficult times, situations and problems among the community. This utopian society would be like a true family, know who everyone is, help each other out and teach them new ideas and concepts never heard of. This in effect would generate and give them all true moral values that would only generate the good in all of them and not the evil side of humanity. The goal would be to eliminate all human suffering due to human greed.

Besides having a good conscience, living conditions would also play a very important role in creating this unthinkable life. Although Mars is a hazardous planet now, due to technological advances, scientists have created a way to make the planet livable. By pumping carbon into the air, it clashes with the nitrogen in the atmosphere causing a chemical reaction producing the one item all life needs. Water. By creating a habitat on the surface of Mars, protected by a polarized electronic field, like in the movies of Star Trek, and force fields, it can make Mars livable for a certain amount of people, the utopian community. Although variety is needed to create a diverse community, all families would have a home, each different to their taste. My home would be a two-story house with four rooms, three bathrooms, a big kitchen, and a big family room. The roof would be made of some see through material so that at night, we can see the stars as we go to sleep. Because an electronic field protects the whole community, gravity will be initiated due to the rotation of Mars around its axis. Thus friction would be in effect enabling the many things humans can do when they were on earth. Although the community is small, the use of automobiles can be, provided that the owner uses an electrical car instead of gas. Right now, Mars is a dense planet but due to all the precipitation from the technological advances of scientist, there will be a diverse set of trees planted to provide the necessary oxygen. Now the one problem earth has today is trash. All trash in the community would be collected at a center in the middle of the town and it will be rocketed to into space towards the sun. Thus when it reaches the sun’s core, it will burn up into gas that the sun can use to create more heat. Everything that was on earth, the beauty, the tasks that needed to be done and work, will be in place on Mars. The only difference is that only the good and a population of one thousand will be able to live on Mars. Food is another problem found on earth. Some cattle will be raised on Mars, but most of the food that will be consumed by the Martian community will be greens, fruits and vegetables. The use of cows will be used to generate the milk needed in the community and the fertilizer to increase the growth of healthy plant life. Living conditions on mars would be of high standards as a reward for the good of the community. With this in mind, in the end, the amount of human greed in the community would decrease because all members of the community are equal in a sense.

In a large community of this nature on an unknown planet, law and a small government is needed to control and aid in what the community wants. But the government would have great restrictions so it will block all corruption from citizens trying to gain power. First, a set of constitutional laws would be written stating the end of killing, manslaughter, adultery and other vices found in the evil world of Earth. With these laws written, actions and punishments would be written in place in case any of the citizens of the Martian community disobeys one of these laws. These punishments could be to the extreme, ranging from a night in prison to exile from the Martian planet. But who would enforce these necessary laws? The citizens of the Martian planet will elect certain members of the community to run these positions after passing all of the requirements of being and elected official. Some of these requirements would include, being a leader in the community, having successfully accomplished a good education, relate to the people very well, money means nothing to them, and etc. Ten elected officials would be chosen to run these positions out of voluntary service and would run for five years. These people would not get paid. Thus this eliminates the need for a president. There would be no taxes also, because in the community, everything that society needed would be self manufactured. The community itself would be the police and if one speculates the greediness and finds a person disobeying law, they report to the community and that individual would be dealt with. Thus law and order would be present to assure the outlaw of human greed.

In conclusion, although Martian society sounds like a great place to live, human greed would always be present because that is how human nature is. But if selected individuals were chosen to obey to these laws, a society with pure goodness and no human suffering can be achieved from the impossible. But a utopian society can not be accomplished with out societal values, a good set of living conditions and a restricted government among circle of the tribe.