Why do scientists never get together and come up with ideas to make the world better? Why isn’t there a Manhattan Project to create a better society?
So much is wasted, so many resources, so much work, so many human lives and for what? It’s only for the benefit of few wealthy people.
This world doesn’t even have a purpose, we just go ahead blindly. What if the world’s purpose was “the greatest good for the greatest number of people”? The world would be a much better place with that purpose in mind.
What if the world’s purpose was to advance technology or to colonize other planets? Again, this would change the world dramatically. Countries usually have a purpose, that is economic growth. It doesn’t matter how that economic growth is achieved, it can even affect the environment or the quality of life of the population. Indeed, it’s easy to turn disasters into profits.
For example, war is a very profitable business, so basing our society on profit can be disastrous.
Most people want to be rich, to have everything they want. It is similar to what happened during the Middle Ages, where there were a few rich people and most people dreamed of being a prince or a princess. A lot of stories and movies are based on this. It seems that the average person’s life was not interesting enough to survive in the tales. Still, a lot of children dream to be princes and princesses. I think we should not encourage this dream of being rich and famous. Maybe we should transmit other values to our children, like empathy and kindness, curiosity and knowledge.
Maybe, just maybe, we should give up all this superficiality because there are real problems in the world, not only are they real, but they are deadly.
The only way to improve the world is to employ reason, to be rational.
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