Utopia

Hi, if anyone who is reading this doesn't know me, my name is Craig Merten. Shawn and I have been best friends since god knows when, I believe 8th grade. Though we may butt heads some times we always come out of every discussion motivated and enlightened. While Shawn has been more of the "spiritual leader", being as he loves to dabble in such things as Philosophy and Psychology, I have always considered my self more of a Da Vinci in the sense that I love to fix what's wrong. My brain never stops thinking of ways to improve and re invent things to make them more efficient or faster. I spent most of my childhood building remote controlled boats and explosives (Shawn assisted in some of those experiences lol). Something I've been really tied up in for the past year is sustainable living. I feel that if we want to preserve this earth we have to stop desecrating on it. Recently I've been inventing a new type of wind turbine but I have also been playing with other things like solar hot water heaters and and carbon fiber, vacuum sealed windows and doors and Magnetically Levitating Trains. Most recently I've been envisioning a new type of living. And by new I should say old because it does incorporate somethings even ancient man figured out but modern man has lost sight of. My goal is to create basically a city, but entirely self sustaining. This city has its own trains, grows its own food, has its own currency's (notice currency's is plural), treats it's own waste water, and manufactures it's own goods. And while you may have envisioned some back wards, hilly billy, you got a perdy mouth type town, it is to the contrary. All homes would be wired with technological gadgetry, all power would be renewable, all food organic. The manufacturing would be state of the art, laser cutters and robotic welding machines, but most of all, all it's citizens would be happy. (And psychedelic drugs would not only be legal but plentiful) Work would be fun and all the neighbors would get together and cook and drink and smoke and gather around the campfires and just enjoy existing. We do this all the time in college, get drunk and have amazing times with just 4 or 5 people. But why does this have to end? If any body has any ideas or questions, whether it be economical or political or technological, please let me know. I'm keeping track of everything and would like to someday put it all together!!