whiteM1lk said:
Here's a thought.
Whats wrong with the world these days?
War. Its the one critical flaw that we all have a problem with.
All the money we put into war is just a waste of good money. For example: The B-2 bomber program cost the U.S. airforce 45BILLION dollars.
That money could have been used to find a cure for cancer or leukaemia. If war was to stop and just vanish, then all the people that were involved with war in some way could have other jobs as scientists of researchers, if they had the experience needed then maybe we would advance more as a society.
Call me crazy but if there were such thing as aliens, they probably advanced their society to the point of UFOs, by putting aside war and violence to become a way farther advance race than us. If we did the same.. well then it would probably go like this.
1.Humanity stopped war 2.we begin to advance 3.Find cures for all diseases 4.cheat death more often 5. 6.flying cars and robots (hell ya!) 7.live on mars 8.meet other life in the universe 9.(possible) We get attacked by the aliens and wipe out (unless the robots get us first). END...?
But in all seriousness, we've had war since our ancestors been smashing each others heads in with rocks. What if it was to stop suddenly?
That may be something we'll never know.
I don't think a Utopia is possible, nor do I think a society of passive non-violence would be a good idea as many authors writing fiction have pointed out.
That said, I do agree a world unity/one world goverment is nessicary. While a lot of that can happen through the spread of ideas, it's also going to involve killing billions and billions of people in at least one last great war.
Things like curing diseases, scientifically granting ourselves immortality, etc... are things that are never liable to be completed, or at least released to the public, until such a time as we have the living space to allow for a population that is not going to die in any great numbers.
That's a simple version, I've written a lot more on the subject on these forums, but I'm currently not feeling very well.
The bottom line is that right now the planet is suffering from dwindling resources with an ever increasing population. The bottom line is that in the end we need for there to be less people and then keep the population down through ZPG (Zero Population Growth). We need for what resources there are to be centralized under one goverment and used towards the purpose of space exploration in order to obtain more resources and expand our population.
As various enviromentalists will point out, we're at a crisis level where at the current rate we're liable to use up most of what we have within a few decades given the constant increase in the human population.
Most RATIONAL wars are fought over resources, and the very justified fear of not having enough, combined with paranoia about what other countries might be doing up in space other than what they claim (is that satellite aiming missles at us?).
In the end I feel the spread of ideas combined with the nessecity of survival is going to bring people together. People already fear the NWO (New World Order) that is gradually developing. I don't care for a lot of it myself, but I see it as being nessicary. A lot of the "national firewall" stuff you see is specifically done out of cultural preservation and to try and slow the spread of ideas and prevent people from coming together on things.
Once enough people do get together I think there is going to be one final war, those in support of a global unity, and those against it for their own reasons whether they simply be independance (there can be no exceptions for this to work) or something totally irrational like religion. In the end those seperate states are going to have to form a unity to stop the one using force to bring the rest of the world in line. In the final equasion a unity winds up happening anyway.
A lot of people think I'm insane, but from an impartial perspective the number of people alive right now combined with the expansion of our population means that I think that anything that gets rid of a lot of people is a good thing. Less people means less consumtion of resources, and a higher standard of living being possible for each person, leading to more contentment until more resources can be found. "we" were warned about the population problems for decades before they got to this point, but nobody listened, not having embraced ZPG when we had the chance is what has made this a sad reality. Nobody wants to be culled (and yes that includes me), but there really is no other solution. A nice, solid global war can get rid of a lot of people, and then if a baby boom can be averted through embracing ZPG it will put the surviving unity in a good position to begin expanding humanity and overcoming those problems in the long run.
Not one of my better aticulated posts, but as I said, I'm not feeling well.
