For at least person striving for perfection in their society, at least one other person is ruining it for them and I can only wonder how many times I'm the person ruining it. I don't know how true it is that it's impossible to create a perfect society for the imperfect man, because I'm not sure that all man is imperfect. It all depends on how you define perfection and imperfection, or whether you find it important to define them at all.
Naturally, there is a group of people that define perfection as being able to accept and love the imperfections in each other and themselves, society eternally perfect and becoming more perfect on a second by second basis. The imperfections of it are what make it so wonderful and worthwhile to enjoy. But because of this perceived perfection the assumption is that there is a missing desire for growth. Honestly, there is always growth, and it comes from loving the imperfections and the challenges of life. These are the people that challenge the idea of perfection, that challenge what is accepted as perfection in their lives, the lives of people around them, and the society that envelops them. They believe that perfection is found in the challenges of imperfection, of always striving for better. In some ways, that's a wonderful idealism.
Then there are the people that are more like I am, and believe that man is eternally denied true perfection, at least for now. I think that the farther we push ourselves to go, the more imperfections we will find. The limitations of how far we can go given enough time is a known unknown. The imperfections force us to strive continuously and true and honest perfection must never be known. Our societies are bolstered and strengthened by the imperfections in it. Evolution, as an example is completely dependent on imperfection of sorts. And likewise, we as creatures of evolution are completely dependent on imperfection. I also don't understand why we think we're capable of achieving perfection and why we think we're capable of comprehending comprehension once we've achieved it. I don't think that we're at a place where we can fully accept and understand the concept of perfection or able to give a definition that will satisfy all of our questions and various feelings towards perfection.
Final thoughts: perfection and imperfection are considered known, but they're so influenced on by personal viewpoints that they're really unknown unknowns and therefore something to keep considering. Because I am willing to accept that the realities of perfection and imperfection are intangible and dynamic, I can derive that they are unknown unknowns to mankind even if they're constantly wrongly accused of being known knowns and / or known unknowns.
Love, Polly.
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