The end of the world as we know it

One way or another, those of us who have a few decades left in us will see a radically new world.  It may be a fantastic world.  It may be a horrible world.  But with all the inconceivably new things being evolved I can’t imagine we will not change radically, that our world, for better or worse, will be qualitatively the same in thirty years that it is today.

All of our problems are easily solved.  It simply requires the honest and unfettered work of men and women of good will.

Our chief problem is that we are not evolving morally with our technology.  We seem to be becoming nicer, but harder, more tolerant, but less understanding.  More free with our bodies, but increasingly chained in our minds.

The decisive shift we need to take to build a genuinely better world is to generalize mental and emotional health, to make it the default, to value it, to build it, and to PLAN to build it.  We don’t need more things. We don’t seem some chimerical “equality”.  We need to believe life has a purpose, that we can share in this purpose, that we belong, and the universe is interactive at its most basic level.