Obstacles To The Construction Of A Utopia, And Proposed Solutions: In Defense of Voluntaryism

The essential problem with the utopia is "according to whom?" While a government that provides a means and infrastructure to foster an objectively-validated improvement of the quality of life (such as the HDI, PQLI, Gini, and OECD rankings), there will never be a universally accepted understanding of "happiness", "freedom", "equality", or any of the characteristics that constitute a utopia, much less agreement on the proper implementation of such. 

While it's optimal for the government and society to be working together to improve the character and quality of life for humanity in mother-father fashion, No one should be forced into the system. Regardless of how great or "rational" a system may appear to be to its adherents, forcing the people to conform to it is nothing short of tyranny, albeit a benevolent dictatorship (to borrow the open-source term). 

For this reason, I assert that in the interests of ensuring that said values of socio-economic liberation, equality, interdependence, societal integration, and environmental stewardship do not jeopardize the individual right to free will and the unabated autonomy it compasses (so long as it does not infringe on the freedoms of others), we should permit an opting-out of the system(s) for individuals who find it counter to their interests, or better yet- a modular approach in which people are only required to conform to the aspects of the system to which they contractually agree. Now that would be a truly workable (and universally beneficial) social contract!