To address Kevin's post from the other thread:
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Originally Posted by KevinG  I appreciate your detailed explanation. Unfortunately, you haven't told me how you are going to create an entire society that is "awake and conscious?"
Until you do, I'm afraid your argument doesn't carry much weight. It is easy to say "if everything works perfectly then my plan will work perfectly." Well of course, but how do you logically expect everything to work perfectly? |
I don't expect everything to work perfectly - just vastly better.
Let's take an analogy. There are drops of water scattered all around the inside surface of a bowl. I say to you "I don't think that these droplets will remain isolated - I think they'll come together to form a body of water at the bottom of the bowl, far more unified than the individual droplets that compose it". You say "How are you going to make
that happen?". I look a bit confused and say "I don't have to
make it happen. That result will just emerge naturally from the situation".
Similarly, it's self-evident to me that, if you form a society of Conscious and Aware people, that many of the problems of our society will just vanish (and many others will be solved in ways I can't anticipate). But (to steal an analogy of Steve's) this is 'blue' - I can point you at it, but if you're wearing red lenses you won't (and can't!) see it. I certainly can't
describe 'blue'. All I can do is to ask you to put down the red lenses for a moment and take another look.