ok, to make an attempt at answering my own question…
the best thing that i can imagine is:
to be in love and living with friends and children and animals (jack russel puppies in particular) in a remarkable part of the world with easy access to a great place to swim in a beautiful house with lots of light and giant windows and a big piano and a huge kitchen and a tennis court in a world wherein people don’t go out of their way to hurt one another and wherein the environment is deemed more important than consumer waste and wherein the governments of the world were actively involved in promoting and subsidising sustainable energy solutions and wherein there were water parks close to everybody on the planet and wherein no one went hungry and wherein the simpsons made a movie and wherein radio stations played interesting and diverse music and wherein no one hated their job and wherein animals were no longer used for human purposes and wherein everyone had a telescope and wherein a select few of us had figured out the secret to immortality and inter-stellar travel and wherein we had benign contact with people from other planets and wherein the earth was ringed by a space station and wherein terrorism didn’t exist and wherein justice was equal for all people and wherein everyone was guaranteed a free and equal education and wherein everyone had great love and sex and wherein i knew how to breakdance and wherein i could speak 30 languages and wherein everyone had skylights and a really nice place to live and wherein my new record was released and wherein everyone loved it and wherein they could play the uncensored version of the ‘rabbit in your headlights’ video on tv and wherein people felt comfortable being nice to strangers and wherein there was always a place for people to go when they felt lonely and wherein the twin towers hadn’t been blown up.
yup. i’m sure i left out a few things, but that about sums it up.
-moby