I was just having a similar thought regarding this quest for perfection of the human condition that animates the Left. One of the main arguments against this desire to perfection has been, as VDH rightly pointed out, the cost in human misery that is nesescary to acheive this so called perfection.

What if in this age however, violence is no longer needed as the means for such massive societal change but instead we can simply be seduced through the popular culture, media, entertainment, that which we see everyday and become more and more comfortable with which each passing year, and quietly, happily in the case of many, we submit to that which had to be taken by force in earlier times. The Left may feel that they have reached the point where they will not have to chain us into accepting their philosophy as we incresingly seem willing to slip the shackles on ourselves.

Strange times.