Are we secretly hoping for a world
Where one day
“We’ll all get along”
In a homogenous utopia
Where no one’s skin has any colour
And we all speak good English
Treating each other like family
Where no one cares
About politics or war
Or anything uncomfortable?
That’s heavy on the homogenous
And light on the utopia.
Humankind is expansively heterogenous,
Increasingly complicated
And progressively sophisticated-
We can aim for so much more
Than simply ‘getting along’.