As the title of this paper might suggest, I am going to argue that utopic projects are endemic to the essence of humanity. I will first delineate the ways in which human beings collectively and individually are directed toward utopia through their constant interaction with their own changing lifeworlds and the lifeworlds of others. I will be most particularly concerned with the way in which ideas from alien or strange communities become transformed as they intertwine with the schemata of a ‘home’ community or, to state this another way, I will examine a process I have come to call mundialization, by which ideas, customs and even attitudes are transformed as they make connections with other cultures. In this light, I will examine Paul Ricœur's insightful hermeneutical exploration of ideology and utopia and their changing phenomenological landscapes. Lastly, I will identify certain concepts which, though only sporadically developed through the ages, are now, in this age of accelerated globalization and mundialization, making their way into a transformative, utopic realm.