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> What are we striving for if not to create utopia?
Who is this 'we' you speak of? I know noone in real-life who is striving for utopia, though some have been indoctrinated into certain aspects of it, such as radical feminism and radical environmentalism.
Utopia in practice as mentioned would be a totalitarian hellscape.
>It hinders us as a species. It leads to death, destruction and genocide.
This is a weak and narrow understanding of what prejudice is and what it achieves.
>Imagine what we could have achieved by now
Again, humanity is on an incredible ~5000 year trajectory.
>And the utopian would have to reject tribalism in all its forms.
You're correct that a certain kind of Utopian does, namely the socialisation absolutist ideologues who ignore nature. It does not and can not work.
If you're legitimately interested in this stuff can I suggest for starters having a read of Steven Pinker's very accessible The Blank Slate on nature/socialisation, and Theodore Dalrymple's slightly heavier In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas. The inherent insanity of utopianism will take wider exploration and experience for the penny to drop.