Just curious.
My position is if you're not a part of the solution, you're a part of the problem. So what are you doing as a person to bring a future like Star Trek into reality?
Key benefits to a Star Trek utopia:
1. Humanity no longer focused on individual survival. Without the need to work all day to put food on the plate, everyone works to better themselves through applying their skills, talents, etc.
2. Without personal wealth being of much concern, the rat race is more about establishing your importance through your contributions to the world, rather than buying pretty toys, etc.
3. With the goal of humanity being to better ourselves, which is also our reward if we do indeed better ourselves, there is not much for others to covet beyond knowledge, and you can't exactly steal talent or smarts. Crime eventually plummets. In the Star Trek future a burglary on Earth is almost unheard of, let alone serious crimes like murder.
Downsides:
1. Not many external odds to overcome. Your challenge will be mostly internal. Instead of fighting to stay out of poverty, you'll fight to make better cakes, or you'll fight to solve an equation that will increase energy savings in your home, etc. Without looming, almost predatory odds against us, it is difficult to advance. We are a species that advances once perturbed. Idle minds...
2. A future like this is nearly impossible without dream technology like food replicators and the high energy engines that will power them. No one will ever want to share when they can apply a value to a substance, so until we have free replication, it's a pipe dream.
I suppose the question boils down to two questions:
1. What changes will you make economically to help bring the Star Trek future?
2. What changes will you make socially?
We live in a world with set rules, and it's very hard to change them unless you separate yourself and live in an island somewhere with a cult.
So what can we do in our current world? Think micro, on a personal level. (Was it Ghandi that said to change the world change yourself?)
Personally, I'm going to begin to act like less of a robot. I'm going to make an effort to put a human face on my neighborhood. Face it, most people don't know their neighbors. If you do, what about the neighbor a few houses down? You don't need to know them well. Just their name, and let them know you're a person too and that you care.
Financially, there's no getting around it. If I throw out all my money, I'll be dead in no time. I am changing the ways I think about money, though... Switching to solid assets that aren't bound to any particular currency. Silver, gold, etc. Gold pressed latinum? I can't seem to find that one anywhere.
Of course I'll need a good portion of my assets to be in US currency, but switching over to a solid asset such as silver is never a bad idea.
My position is if you're not a part of the solution, you're a part of the problem. So what are you doing as a person to bring a future like Star Trek into reality?
Key benefits to a Star Trek utopia:
1. Humanity no longer focused on individual survival. Without the need to work all day to put food on the plate, everyone works to better themselves through applying their skills, talents, etc.
2. Without personal wealth being of much concern, the rat race is more about establishing your importance through your contributions to the world, rather than buying pretty toys, etc.
3. With the goal of humanity being to better ourselves, which is also our reward if we do indeed better ourselves, there is not much for others to covet beyond knowledge, and you can't exactly steal talent or smarts. Crime eventually plummets. In the Star Trek future a burglary on Earth is almost unheard of, let alone serious crimes like murder.
Downsides:
1. Not many external odds to overcome. Your challenge will be mostly internal. Instead of fighting to stay out of poverty, you'll fight to make better cakes, or you'll fight to solve an equation that will increase energy savings in your home, etc. Without looming, almost predatory odds against us, it is difficult to advance. We are a species that advances once perturbed. Idle minds...
2. A future like this is nearly impossible without dream technology like food replicators and the high energy engines that will power them. No one will ever want to share when they can apply a value to a substance, so until we have free replication, it's a pipe dream.
I suppose the question boils down to two questions:
1. What changes will you make economically to help bring the Star Trek future?
2. What changes will you make socially?
We live in a world with set rules, and it's very hard to change them unless you separate yourself and live in an island somewhere with a cult.
So what can we do in our current world? Think micro, on a personal level. (Was it Ghandi that said to change the world change yourself?)
Personally, I'm going to begin to act like less of a robot. I'm going to make an effort to put a human face on my neighborhood. Face it, most people don't know their neighbors. If you do, what about the neighbor a few houses down? You don't need to know them well. Just their name, and let them know you're a person too and that you care.
Financially, there's no getting around it. If I throw out all my money, I'll be dead in no time. I am changing the ways I think about money, though... Switching to solid assets that aren't bound to any particular currency. Silver, gold, etc. Gold pressed latinum? I can't seem to find that one anywhere.
Of course I'll need a good portion of my assets to be in US currency, but switching over to a solid asset such as silver is never a bad idea.
