For some time now I have been reading-observing in different capsules and personal webs, together with a question I asked some time ago, a certain discouragement before the current state of the world. Starting from the basis but omitting that “Changing the world is a selfish act” (we will always do it from our point of view) I launch an open question for everyone: What would you change about the current world in which we live?

5 months ago · 👍 repeater, half_elf_monk

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@half_elf_monk Don't worry about the number of messages, Station has a limit of words per message but no limit of messages (I think) we all have been, and still are, newcomers wherever we go. And it's not that I think big, I recognize that the world is currently sad (to put it mildly) but, at least personally, I refuse to let apathy, discouragement and hatred be part of my day to day, sometimes a simple gesture of courtesy or a smile to someone who is in a bad moment can change the course of someone else's life 🙂 · 5 months ago

Sorry for the massive amount of posts. I don't know how to combine them all into one on the client I'm using (amfora), or if that's even possible. · 5 months ago

Jesus got it right. He said: "I am the way, the truth, and the life." The great thing about this is that it doesn't depend on our historically-inept and greedy motivations. It starts Transcendently, with God taking action in a spirit of self-giving love, for the sake of those who suffer. The pressure is off for you to change the world. Let that burden go. Instead, be changed, and echo the Truth outward so that it changes others for the better. · 5 months ago

You can't force anyone to have better character. That's not how the soul works. But I guess if I could change one thing about the world, I'd give everyone every opportunity to hear, receive, and participate in the Christian Truth. · 5 months ago

Say what you will, but the bible gets it right when it gives a 50k mile view of right human action: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” That kind of love operates according to the objective standard of Truth, and the spirit of self-giving love, rather than subjectivist self-gratification. · 5 months ago

I'd argue that a commmittment from every sentient creature to Truth (objective, not subjective) which comes from a Transcendant Source is an excellent start. Love it or hate it, the bible gets it right when it says: "The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom". That implies humility about your place in the universe, recognizing that no human can act like a god. Maybe it even repentance for our own part in evil. Take responsibility. From that flows a committment to living in harmony with the objective world around you, rather than self-serving greed/tyranny/etc that's been a diaster for the human the human race. · 5 months ago

So while I'm sure we'd all love to fix whatever is currently #trending in our algo-selected thought-ghettos, a broader view of human nature and history will likely be best for all of us. @psyko asked a big thing, so think big. What has changed the world for the better? · 5 months ago

Optimism about human progress through technological/academic has been repeatedly proven as rank naïveté when it dismisses history and the moral systems that form well the nature of human beings. Tech maximalists, policy wonks of every stripe, and activists for every sort of rights are all guilty of this to some degree. · 5 months ago

It's clear that, while there are outward environment/technological/systemic problems, the root of it lies in human nature, nurture, thinking, and habits... whence the bad systems arise. · 5 months ago

@ruby Well said! We need to get rid of the greedy first 10% (better more). If you're rich you get richer and if you're poor you stay poor. But I believe most of the people like to live and let live (besides some "Why does this effing neighbour drive a better car then me). The bad thing is, how would you stop greed in general? There should be exorbitant taxes on inheritance from some point on, for example, but those who are to decide about such things won't harm themselves. · 5 months ago

I would like if everyone could be satisfied with what they have - if they have enough. The poor need not be satisfied with their lot, but at some point there must be some concept of *enough*.

This applies to all levels of society, from individual people to in-groups to nation states. It seems as if there is no concept of satisfaction at any of these levels. And has there ever been? I don't believe so. Striving for "more" has always been part of the human condition, but I wish it were not so. · 5 months ago

I will teach everyone that the human is part of nature and we are not above it.

And abolish private property (not the same as personal property)

So you can't own the land, just live in it like any other creature in the world. pick up just what you need. · 5 months ago

Abolish billionaires by taxing, and make sure it's impossible to amass more wealth than about $100 million or so ever again. · 5 months ago

Teach everyone Plato's cave parable to a degree where you verify they all understand it. for a start. · 5 months ago

Less ego. · 5 months ago

If I could I would stop the russian aggression to Ukraine and stop the genocide against the palestinian people, among other things. The world is a mess right now. But my main attention is the war against Ukraine, because if Putin overcomes Ukraine he'll surely go on to attack EU where I live. Experts say, Putin will test the EU borders between 2028 and 2030 :( I hope the EU has enough nukes then to blast Russia to oblivion if they attack. · 5 months ago