Originally Posted by ticktockclok  I can see the whole world being privatized. People are joyful; nothing is there to block them in their intellectual or spirutual pursuits. Companies and people try to make a profit, but realize that the best way to do so is to be kind and considerate in catering to your clients in whatever it is you do. It's difficult to be kind and considerate at a job you hate, so people start to ditch the 8 hour a day, corporate or bureaucratic life style, instead doing whatever they are passionate about. Also, people are simply able to do more, since no one is stealing their money.
Scientific research explodes as there is absolutely nothing to hamper. The standard of living for the world also rises, and "poverty" becomes a thing of the past. People prepare for the next great challenge of mankind as we approach the singularity, the point in time when AI becomes more intelligent than man. My guess is rather than machines being separate from humanity, what will happen is that AI will be used to augment the brain, which will become standard as we're flooded with greater and greater technological advances.
Kids will finally have an actual education. Many different options will be available for the parents of children, but even the cheapest option, teaching the kids yourself, will be infinitely better than the past standard of having them assimilate into government brainwashing institutions, and then go home to get another dose of statism from the idiot's box. Kids will likely go to centers of higher learning (I call them that because I don't know what the standard will be instead of college) much earlier, because their love of learning is not killed at an early age. They are motivated to do with their lives whatever they feel passionate about.
With the end of the state, religion will end as well. Religion is all about blindly believing in a limiting set of beliefs. While people of days long gone might have blindly adhered to whatever dogma they grew up in, men and women living in a world of liberty would constantly question and not blindly accept anything.
This world wouldn't be a bunch of people living isolated from one another. Think about the 7 Habits by Stephen Covey, if you've read the book. What are the levels he introduces? Dependence, independence, and interdependence.
When the USA was created, we were clearly at a level of independence. It wasn't a time known for people working on a grand scale together, but people could live their own lives with no interference from anyone else. That's how the Revolutionary War was won, a bunch of small guerilla bands destroying the British. Then, the USA receded into dependence, with the advent of the welfare state. Dependent on the TV for entertainment, on politics for people who don't care about you making choices for you, and on welfare or a mindless, drone-like job for feeding you. I think the key word when thinking about the future I see is interdependence. People voluntarily work together to bring themselves higher. Thinking spiritually, it's a perfect setting for lightworkers and darkworkers to work together.
The last thing I see is parents telling their kids to learn from history, so that the mistake of letting someone else have over your life doesn't happen again. And I see the kids listening. |