ed itself from the rest of the world for 250 years. Japan saw what the west was doing to Chinese culture and feared that their culture would be completely destroyed by Western influence. To Tokugawa, utopia already existed, and it was his job to defend it. Isolation is not a very wise tool as communication is necesarry to achieve world peace, which is the ultimate utopia. Isolation is seen as very self-centered, however is is less so than conquest.However history has not ended. It continues every second of every day and utopia is still being sought after. In the future, I believe that the quest for utopia will turn back to conquest, but not the land conquests that we are familiar with. Now that we are in an age where loyalty to G-d or to one's nation has been replaced with loyalty to one's company, conquest will turn into buisness transactions. AOL- Time Warner, Mitsubishi, Sony, Viacom, General Motors, and all of the other Fortune 500 companies will attempt to "conquer" one another by buying eachother. This will lead to an untimate rivalry between two major conglomerates. Isolation may show itself if there comes a "green party" conglomerate (a GPC) of sorts into this rivalry which attempts to claim some communities of its own. These communitis will be isolated from the rest of the buisness world out of disgust for the rivalry. They will be loyal only to their GPC. Once our GPC faces competition by more GPCs, the major rivals will become less frequented. The era of buisness conquest will end and we will attempt to achieve our utopia by returning to simpler times. Reform will be on everyone's lips as we try to free ourselves from the grasps of technology. More people will try to live without their computers, blenders will be replaced with hand-strokes and running will replace treadmills. Some communities will reject GPCs for small, family-owned providers in an attempt to simplify.Conquest may return again once people realize that the ent...
