When you look to the future, what do you see? Do you ever actually think about the future? Not just your future, but also THE future. Do you see flying cars? What about aliens or robots amongst us? I’ll tell you what I see. I see a very bleak future. I see a future in which we as humans will have inevitably caused our own demise through a multitude of different actions as well as a long history of inaction. I get that I may sound like Mr. doom and gloom, but could you really blame me? Seeing what goes on around us on a daily basis, the hatred, the tragedies, the disinformation, the overwhelming selfishness and greed. All of these things absolutely plague us as a society and provide us with a very vivid picture as to what is to come if we do not change our ways. So, what exactly am I getting at? Although I love to keep the suspense going, I will enlighten you as to why I am writing about this. I am going to propose my best efforts attempt at solving the problem that is a failing society. Before you judge me too harshly, I get that it is unequivocally simple to come up with my own idea as to how to fix society. However, I am not naïve. I understand that it would take an extraordinary amount of work as well as time to accomplish such a task, but I am willing to propose my idea in hopes that either someone out there feels similar or perhaps someone out there may take notice and use my ideas in their far better structured hypothesis as to how to go about achieving the impossible. That being said please take this as nothing more than a suggestion on how to solve a very real problem: the inevitable demise of society.
First and
foremost I believe the biggest hindrance to society is and will continue to be
our need for affiliation. I understand that territorially speaking the need to
for affiliation is somewhat necessary, however, I think moving forward into the
future taking into consideration potential further space exploration and
tremendous discoveries of intelligent life that may occur we need to start
transitioning from our point of origin being a simple destination on earth such
as a country to it being earth in general. What I mean by that is instead of us
saying we are, for example, from the United States or from Europe etc. we
should instead start moving toward the mindset that we are just from Earth. I
get that if we traveled to another planet and interacted with intelligent
beings we would obviously state our planet of origin, but in reality your
allegiance is more than likely sworn to a specific country rather than Earth
itself as a whole. So in the attempt to ditch affiliation we must also forgo
our allegiance to our native countries in unison. There is nothing wrong with
being proud of where you came from, but when you really stop and think about it
does it actually matter if you are from Chicago, New York or Beijing on a grand
scale? I would have to say no, it really does not. We are from Earth. We are
Earthlings. In order to come together as one we must actually begin to see each
other as one. We cannot simply say we are all brothers and sisters yet this
person is from here and that person is from there, brothers and sisters share
the same home. Now sure you can quite easily pick apart the analogy I just
provided you by saying “well homes have rooms, therefore home is Earth the
rooms are just the countries”. At least that is how I would combat what I just
said. But to negate that notion, or better yet challenge it I would say that
does division in any sense not cause strife between people? Some people truly
believe that America is the best place in the entire world. Others think that
Europe is. A lot of bias backs each one of those sentiments I’m sure but would
you say that each leads credence to an elitist mentality which is something
that could flounder into less peaceful interactions with one another.
The goal
moving forward towards an as close as possible utopian society has peace in
mind. Ditching affiliation and unnecessarily obtrusive allegiance is only my
first proposed step. The next step is to advocate absolute peace and
compassion. To teach it to our children rather than make excuses for violence.
Knowledge and compassion are both key in order to promote the growth of peace
globally. Those 2 key traits are sorely lacking in most people today and it is
very apparent when considering how alive and well racial tensions are as well
as the sheer lack of intelligence found in most people.
Inaction is
profound in society concerning any type of issue. Whether it be global warming
or exactly what I have mentioned in this lengthy post regarding how we interact
with one another, it is very evident that most people would rather do nothing
and mind their own business rather than make a change. This is simply a
proposal, a work in progress on how to combat the inevitable fall of society.
If we are to continue doing nothing, put no steps into effect now, then when it
is to late and we are already completely divided as a people, what happens when
a major global catastrophe occurs? Will we then magically be able to unite and
actually STAY united? Unfortunately as it stands now I do not believe we would
be able to do that. I would like to close my eyes and imagine a future in which
violence is rare and peace is the unified language of all peoples on Earth. A future where a great many people are wearing this hat(jokes...unless you want one then by all means!).Call me a dreamer, call me an idealist, call me whatever you’d like. I believe
it is possible. All we need to do is do. I shall leave you with this question:
are you willing¿
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