Clean energy creation
Environmental pollution reduction
Human wellbeing
Rather than wars and data centres for processing of AI uselessness, The majority of resources that lay outside of daily survival should be pushed into these three areas. Clean energy because energy consumption ultimately will continually go up and it is a huge resource stumbling block for design. Pollution reduction (including what is already in the environment) because regardless of whether climate change is man-made or not, we should engineer our environment to be supportive of our best. And then, Human wellbeing, as ultimately that is the most important aspect of our species, bar none.
It saddens me that so much of our effort is put into nonsense that doesn't matter, that doesn't improve our lives, that doesn't take us forward as a species to open up more potential, more possibility, more of our best. Instead, we spend our resources on not only holding the status quo, but trying to hold onto a past that was already broken. One where wealth and power are the underlying motive for our activity, drawing lines on maps, enacting violence, supporting division.
A tale as old as human time?
Perhaps.
But what makes it difficult to change the story for the future is that we keep on repeating all the mistakes of the past, never learning, never practicing, never investing into what leads us to an environment supportive of human growth potential. We run counter to our best, with the economy driving supply and demand behaviours that crush human potential in order to increase bottom lines, making it increasingly difficult for any individual to improve, because the environment they are raised within is degrading.
We are products of our environment.
Where and the way we are raised, the community we are within, the beliefs we are instilled with, the programming we are influenced by - everything that happens to us, and everything we do, shapes us. And we are not getting better, we are not improving the ecosystem of life for the next generations, and we are not even making our lives better now.
Do you think you are?
You might be. At least, you might believe you are improving the world for yourself or your children, but ultimately, it will amount to nought. Because no matter who you are, or how much you have, you, like all of us, are destined to be within the world we have. No one is outside it, no one is larger, no matter how much wealth and power held. We are all trapped here, together.
You might have designs on heading into space to escape the rest of us, but that path is not a saviour. One might survive, but that doesn't mean freedom. Instead, the sins of the past will forever weigh heavy, the failure. And if it does not, then that speaks volumes also - but it will.
None of us get out unscathed.
As I see it, survival as a human isn't about maintaining life, it is about building the species outward in ways that make it increasingly robust and able to deal with experience. It is not about who makes the most money, it is about how much wellbeing we make as a society. To do this, we need to apply skills and resources in the right locations, to invest into what matters, even if it is "expensive" compared to the legacy economic practices.
Efficiency isn't the goal, human impact is.
That isn't to say we shouldn't look for efficiencies, because we should. But where we apply process for efficiency is in areas that improve humanity, not profits. If we still have to have a monetary system and let's assume that we must for some time still, then we have to align it with our wellbeing, where success is directly tied to human improvement.
That requires energy, environmental security, and human wellbeing.
We can do better, but doing better personally isn't enough, if it is leading to others doing worse. We have to be a net positive, and the investment focus should be toward increasing the gap between good and harm, where we are continuously adding positive value, whilst decreasing negative.
The challenge isn't in being able to do it, because we could start doing it today. The challenge is having the will to make the changes necessary, to let go of the many attachments we hold onto to maintain our sense of self - our broken identity. The wars of and environmental issues aren't at the hands of tyrants and dictators, our suffering isn't caused by them - it is all a symptom of our warped minds, our failing behaviours, and our unwillingness to do better, to support better, to demand better.
The solutions are easy.
The hard part is breaking all the habitual practices that hold us back.
Taraz
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