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Originally Posted by Love  I'm not exactly sure what a perfect world would look like. The notion seems a little eerie to me. However, I would expect of one: manageable ways of dealing with anger and disagreements; respect for both the planet we live on and the people on it; daily food needs met for all people; space needs met for all people; a system that seeks to maximize use of "junk"; an efficient prison system (I guess we're not quite perfect at that point, but I do feel that prison should be effective in deterring crime and further delinquency), etc. Do this, I do feel, in part begins with the individual. Do my actions currently align with this vision? That's how I feel you start. To lead by example. |
Here's a thought, in a perfect world we would not need a prison system, so perhaps we should find ways that keep people away from the prison system in the first place.
I wonder what would be more efficient, sending someone to jail because of their bad behavior or to give them something to strive for, give them some goal that they could go for, something so inspiring to strive for that they'd see doing crime as not the best way as to reach that goal. I think often there's a goal to reach a certain amount of wealth and fame... I remember reading about why people want to become crack dealers, so that they can become rich drug lords, like the metaphor of going into the NBA everyone works hard to get in but only a few get in, but the reward for reaching it is tremendous. And so another idea comes is, once they've reach that level of popularity, are they actually happy that they thought that they would be? Celerities overdosing on crack cocaine might suggest that perhaps its not acquiring wealth and status that brings one happiness.
How about this question. What drives people to commit crimes in the first place? What causes a person to become so selfish that they consider only their system and not take into account the larger society system. I talk about what I mean by being selfish to a system in this thread:
Sin is relative to your system.
Also, there is enough food on this planet to feed everyone. What forces are keeping the food to be distributed to everyone? OR maybe that's the problem right there. It is grown in one place and then expensive resources are required to ship them else where. Maybe the shift should be to have more food grown locally instead of everywhere else.
Then the question becomes, what's the force that keeps people from wanting to grow food locally? Well they're too busy doing things. Like watching TV, or being stuck sitting in traffic. But then again, maybe it is more efficient for the food to be grown fast in one place with machines and then be shipped... I guess it comes down to figuring out what is the most efficient thing to do.
And another thing to brainstorm
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The notion seems a little eerie to me.
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What is it about the idea of a perfect world that turns people off? Would it be that a perfect world would be just too boring or something?
Well just a few thoughts to consider.