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Originally Posted by kniyogi  Fair enough--it sounds plausible. I still find it unrealistic and there is not enough evidence in the real world to convince me that such a model would work *smoothly* in a big country (instead of a small ashram). It also assumes I would be willing to clean public restrooms once a week I can see glimpses of how this belief system might work, but it would take humanity to evolve to a new level of consciousness (which I know you strive for), which is incongruent with current reality. |
It's not assuming that you'd be willing to clean restrooms ... maybe you'd just opt out of the restroom timeshare and would only use the one at your house. Maybe you'd carry around a portable toilet/flask type device for going to the bathroom. Maybe we'd adopt outdoor bathroom-type holes in the ground for peeing that would get cleaned by the rain, women would carry a tool around so they wouldn't have to sit. maybe you'd subscribe to some other bathroom model. It's about making conscious choices. I think that a lot of people would sign up to maintain a bathroom if it meant that they didn't have to squat on the street to go to the bathroom, and people would probbably be a lot neater in public restrooms once they started having to clean them.
The reality is that if people don't want to do a job anymore, we will find a solution. It's been happening for the last 100 years. Look at construction, for example. Go to some third-world country and you'll see guys working in sandals and ball caps working on live circuits, walking across beams 100' in the air etc. Here (in Canada), the pace of construction is much slower sometimes because people are refusing to do that kind of stuff. At the site I work at right now, some work is on hold until the plant shuts down for a month in 2011 because of safety concerns. At first glance, putting a 3 day job on hold for 3 years (and thus delaying project completion) seems like a massive, huge inconvenience ... but once you set a standard for what you are willing and not willing to do, the solutions are what they are.
And the reality is that I'm sure even Steve and Erin take out the garbage and do laundry. The real question I have is this: if the whole world woke up and were suddenly conscious, what would Steve do?
