OK, OK … I know … I’ve not finished answering series 4 of “Five Questions”. And no, I hadn’t forgotten! Here’s the answer to question four.

Question 4: Is it even possible to create a Utopia?
Well surprisingly, yes it is possible; but it is possible only ever in your mind, because as novelist Chuck Palahniuk observes:

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

Moreover there is human nature to contend with. If one were able to create whatever your notion of Utopia is, two things will apply:
(a) It would not be anyone else’s idea of Utopia. My Utopia is not your Utopia, and vice versa. We all have different ideas of perfection. So there would be an immediate disagreement (or worse), which by its very existence would destroy Utopia.
(b) No sooner had Utopia been created than you would think of something else you’d like, or which it should/shouldn’t contain and have to start over (or at least change things around) … ad infinitum.
So yes, Utopia is possible, but only as an individual mental concept.