Instead of focusing too much on all of the things that are currently wrong, could you please help paint a picture of what a future utopian society could look like?
My vision is heavily inspired by Terence McKenna. I imagine a world as it might have existed during prehistoric times. Lush forests teeming with exotic wildlife, clean air, and crystal clear water. No highways full of billboards, no parking lots, no shopping malls, and no cars. Just safe grounds and paths for humans embedded deep within all of this nature.
At a birds-eye view, it may look as if humanity has completely abandoned technology and regressed back into its childhood. Yet if you were to look out through the eyes of one of these utopian people, you would see the most wonderful augmented reality display.
Information, communication, entertainment, education, global economies… almost everything has been de-materialized. Humanity’s ceaseless pursuit of technology has been mostly divorced from our physical environment and mother earth is bustling with life again.
The only technologies that remain in the real world are those that help all of us live happy and healthy lives (modern medicine, delicious food, solar power, etc) all the while the shared virtual reality in our eyes is limited only by our collective imaginations.
We are finally living in accord with nature without having to forsake our innate desire for knowledge and progress.
My vision of an ideal world is a hard one to answer but does have a few key aspects to it.
Where getting sick or hurt doesn’t financially ruin someone.
Where people can seek mental health care without destroying their lives.
Where homelessness is a thing of the past.
Where no one goes hungry.
Where seeking to improve yourself via higher education doesn’t cost money.
Where school funding is based on needs rather than location.
Where people are judged by the value of their character rather than the color of their skin, who they love, or the money in their bank account.
My ideal world isn’t some far off fantasy, my ideal world is something that we can achieve in our lifetimes if we try.
I want to live in that world.