The Island vs. Today's World

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This is the first Utopian novel that I'am reading, in despite of questioning is this an Utopia? It is easy to read than I expected, except the some pages I readed over again.

In the Island, there is a Utopian living with a fiction system which not so different from the ones we have today. Actually there are many things that has reflection in todays world. The characters have conflicts with the system, ısland has conflict between itself but also with the other countrys that want to use their petrol sources. They do not share their resources and do not allow their uses to the other countries in order to be stay away from a power war.

In today's world,  countries have power wars between them mostly consist from energy and material resources like petrol and gold. The religion and believes of the people are tool for some of the people themselves the understand the world and live a meaningfull life in someway and tool for the governments to use to lead their public. Thus all aims intersect with the education system which is the important issue for the Island. They believe in education and experience. Thus they give additional parents to childs thus additional childs to parents in order to learning to excepting, knowing everyone and learning from everyone without emotion fights within themselves. 

The mindfullness elements related to Eastern culture got my interest through reading, I was not excepting that when I first heard the title. Than I take the “attention” and be in the moment and read my book. This elements are also find their echoes in today’s World. there are so many events such as camps and meetings based on yoga and mindfulnees practices that all inspired from East culture and mostly Budism. This is an awakening about “Attention” , ın today’s World many people begin to question their “attention” as Will asked in the story “ Attention to what?”. The answer was “Attention to attention.” This is one of the main ideas in mindfulness in a multitasking living World. People begin to try have attention and search an alternative way of living in the system for more meaningful life that “here and now”.

On the otherhand, there are two seperate group in the island as far as I read, about management of the Island. One of them is Dr. Macphail, his family and friends, on the otherhand the Raja family. We learned all of this conflict and how the Island idea occurs and it philisophy beneath it together with journalist Will. There are plans for the future of the ısland with two different views. The Raja family is near to have deal with other countries in order to Show their power and system the World gain Money to improve it. They are also planning create and army, since there is no army in the Island. However Dr. Macpail have opposite idea to protect the resoures and the ısland in order to sustain a future.

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