Utopia, Ideology and Reality

Young Tyang Chang
October 1970

The modern men who have been feeling the vacancy in their thinking life say that this age means an end of Utopia and ideology.

Then what does this fact mean? We may believe that this means our real world moves in a direction that has no aim. If so, we have to think that utopia and ideology cannot give any influence to reality and the future.

Ideology must interpret the past history. On the standpoint of this interpretation, it has to make an estimation of our social status and history in the future also. Moreover, it has to give a direction to our human action so concretely as to lead human history.

Likewise, there would be born the inevitable law of history from the historical interpretation of ideology. Under such a viewpoint, we can understand, truly, the value of our Divine Principle.

This Divine Principle, namely the inevitable law of history, was born from the past, but this law can rule our present (time) and future.

By any effort and method deviated from the law of the principle, it's impossible for mankind to change the direction of history. Therefore, without wasting time and endeavor, we have to make an effort to draw our reality toward this ideology, namely the Divine Principle.