Give That Possible World A Chance
What If …
We can make 1 light bulb together, but you choose a game to kill each other for 1000 candles? — 2022–01.16
What if …
0. … humans were to choose proactive empathy instead of self-seeking?
The lack of empathy and compassion is extremely dangerous, yet nobody seems to realize it. It is the very cause of our misery. It is also this lack that is spiraling further hopelessness which would one day end the entire humanity.
The avarice to win; the voracious appetite to feed the ego is predatory. It is the same poison that is contaminating this Darwinistic, predatory society. We need a civilization that is empathetic as a form of intelligence.
To induce swarm intelligence to the application of the human race, empathy and the poignancy of desperate will-to-be to end all sufferings is vital to push the human race forward and across the threshold of hope. The lack of such awareness and poignancy, will however, diminish the possibility to refine and elevate oneself, and to unite, engage and connect for a universal non-exclusive, borderless and egoless common altruism.
The survivability of the human race depends on everyone to come together to focus on the right things and to care deeply for one another as one family, and the faster they realize that, the earlier they will mitigate their sufferings as the immediate effects. A selfless civilization that works together intelligently moves ahead in alarming leaps.
Only when justice and empathy is everyone’s concern instead of parochial concerns, then we can speak about civilization.
We must start proactive empathy — Now. De-tribalize yourselves, patriotism is fiction, move beyond your own cloistered culture, and into an empathic civilization. Inclusiveness also means proactive empathetic listening, not filtering, not abandoning, not dismissing, not ignoring. To drive the human spirit, you need to inspire empathy, happiness and eudaimonia, but without the first, all else is lost.
There may only be 2 necessary key parameters to morals — a strong sense of empathy and a proper flair for egoless reasoning. To make morals sufficient, one must have the will to act. If we put our compassion together, can we mount co-empathy?
The lack of cross cultural awareness, understanding and empathy are correlated with ignorance and parochialism. - 2012-06.22Silence - a symptom of apathy, a pathogen of alienation, a seed of hatred. - 2011-06.25We accept a lesser than possible better world, it will remain status quo. - 2013-07.08
1. … humans stop assuming and lying about the divine, and stop waiting for the gods for miracles that will never come and start working on it — not just for themselves, but for the passion and compassion for all mankind?
Most people lack reasoning and empathy, many religions try to inculcate that, many failed. Either they lack the same sense, the notions is not translated well to sense, or people just lack the sense biologically to be able to perceive or learn those notions. Divinity, no matter, how poetic becomes meaningless.
Religion can be very extreme. There is hardly reasoning. We have seen it ourselves. No one knows for sure, yet everyone is sure about God. One simple and clear thing is that — everyone is not trying to prove God right, they are merely trying to prove themselves right about God. Does God even exist? Why so many mortals who can’t even fathom the universe or even handle their own lives want to talk on the Almighty’s behalf when the Almighty remains so coldly silent? It tells a lot about religious beliefs. It is extreme to start with, extremely unreasonable.
What human need is refinement and sincere progress, not pretentious ones — not made-up divinity.
If our meaning of life is based on myths, is it 'moral-able'? - 2013-01.05People invent their gods after their own image, not the other way round. That is why we see the 'coincidence' that the creator out of the trillions trillions googel chance - happens to be part of their ethnicity. - Re: Subliminal extremism, 2016-08.27We have all seen and experienced so much heat and words over the existence of the supreme being, yet not a single time has any deity appearing to just decisively conclude it. - 2018-05.12When there is a whisper ... how do we know if it was God, the devil or just our own delusions? - 2016-11.12I have no matter against people fabricating God, if it fulfills 2 basis - altruistic motivations and having rational, efficient, and effectual consequences. - 2012-06.18Aside from the news of people getting divorcing their spouses during covid, why aren't there news of people divorcing their gods? - 2020-10.27Stop fantasizing on ancient fairies and aliens, if the people in the past are so advanced, why would we only find document artefacts made mostly of clays and stones? Won't they ensure they have advanced tech to ensure the information gets passed down? Come on, don't they teach basic reasoning and critical thinking in schools anymore? - 2020-10.27
2. … humans stop squandering on fake-feel-good entertainment and put themselves on the responsibility to push scientific breakthroughs forward to save the next dying person? What if humans treat each other like family and wanted everyone to thrive in the best possible human quality with quality lives?
We hardly understand 4% of the Observable Universe, and we can’t even observe beyond anything beyond the reach of the speed of EM waves or light, yet we have the audacity to define ‘wisdom’. By the time, if at all humans do examine reality with science earnestly —of which most don’t, their bodies are degenerating to die. They are not anxious to seize the day to mine for another discovery. They eat the same food, keep to the same circle, and give attention to the same parochial news and concerns daily. This is the `wisdom` they brand as — growth? Most people merely exist and have no real zest to live. They are bored and they are boring. Worst of, when they don’t know they know little, while they try to tell others that others are the ones who are wrong. When no one is around, and if they have that modicum of awareness, their own emptiness and lies becomes deafening. Human are overrated into complacency.
I have been asked by many people why the cure for cancer and many other diseases are so slow. Many diseases are aged-old, and the cures are dragged for far too long. There are several reasons, but aside the technical difficulties, there are more difficulties which we all are involved, so here they are:
1. We live in a world where people who chase after a ball gets more attention than people chasing after a cure.2. We live in a world where people who write a song gets more attention than people who write an equation.3. We live in a world where people who pretends for a living, are called `heros` for mere acting, get more attention than people who act vigilantly on the real heroic issues and to have gone unknown.4. We live in a world where people who entertain are termed talented for dancing, acting and singing, get more attention than people who work laboriously on real life saving solutions and to have gone unnamed.5. We live in a world where people who raps are more listened to than people who cries the inconvenient truth for justice.So, when the doctor breaks the news that the diagnosis is — cancer. You might like to refer to this and re-check if this is true. We might have a cure if and only if … the reverse are true.
Parents, themselves, are encouraging their kids on the wrong path (on admiring vain glamour of celebrities), giving the wrong notions of values or what to value. We have to adjudicate and improvement on our judgement, as our evaluation requires it for decision making and it cannot afford to be flawed. Kids see what they pay attention to. So the next time, kids ask you, “Mama / Papa, what are you watching?” Think about it — and don’t ask me why we still don’t have cancer cure today. And if you think “cancer cure is difficult”, it is, but you really do not know why we cannot overcome the difficulties — people have no idea — and that — is the disturbing part.
It is beyond words …. beyond words … to hear from people who are not willing to let go of entertainment at the cost of dying people. Just check around to survey how an average person would endorse to shut down Hollywood, world cup, super bowl for a year to fund for the race for medical advancement to meet the deadly timelines. Dying people cannot wait. They won’t understand that. Trust me. They will go back to their burgers, jesting and rap.
When money commands the market, and researchers cannot afford their work - the world can forget about their next cure. - 2020-02.03This is why you have no cancer cure today, not that it can’t but people voted with their money and others have to pay with their lives. This is the same for many other diseases that are underservedly taking human lives. So next time, someone is diagnosed with cancer, re-think about it. If art is the palliative, it is certain a sad form of medicine. I used to tell my students — “if you are stupid, that is ok, please don’t drag people down along with you”. This, again, is why we lack cancer cure. Trace where the attention is going, no one is innocent. Ignorance is not bliss.
I abhor it when people ask me why there is no cure for cancer. Can’t they see the obvious? It’s like a student coming to me asking how he fail his exams when he should ask himself how he spent his time, how he squandered his time foolishly. While not all artists are jesters — the few real artists are not that many, and that industry should not be funded that billionaires come out from there while struggling scientists check out of life-saving critical work. Of course, most people would claimed to be non-jesters. Just as in a Zombie Apocalypse, most people would think they will be the few rare survivors. It’s delusional, and this is not the time for it. The dying cannot wait.
When a jester dies, the whole world cries. When a wizard (aka scientist) dies, s/he leaves quietly with ... your cure.
Bye bye ... hope. The world gave you up.Socrates already knew the failing flaw of democracy - the quality of the voters - the plebeian mass will vote for the candyman not the doctor. - 2000
1 out of 3 people will have cancer in their lifetime. They will pay for ignorance and apathy heavily with their lives. They should have not wasted their focus on the wrong places. They should start — Now — before it is too late.
The fact that we have more tech in Hollywood than some cancer research centers is troubling, and worse of, the common people not understanding this, and hopeless, if they accepted this. Support science to go in the right directions, and most importantly, all the wasteful resources to go into science, we can have the cure before the next Christmas. Dying people cannot wait. If someone says it will take time, s/he should have cancer first to understand the obvious common sense. Stop asking why there is no cure for cancer, start asking what you are voting with your money on. Many other diseases can be resolved similarly iff (if and only if) we all are sincere enough about them. We could have prevented all those tragic loss.
If there is a real working Death Note, and a Harry Potter book, most people will walk over the grimoire and pick the novel. Poetry sells, science wails. Save the cynical remarks over science over a desperate joke to lighten the mood at the funeral, just don’t ask redundant question why there is no cancer cure (or does that even cross our minds?). Everyone’s at the mall queuing up for ‘talent’ audition, the labs are empty and unfunded.
Cures get delayed, people die. It is not that difficult to understand. Technology gets delayed, multiple utilities don’t happen, including assisting medicine to get to the next step or stage. Again, this is common sense, it is not that difficult to understand. Resources and energy are limited until technology and techniques are mined and worked on to overcome the known limits. If resources and energy are channeled else where for other purposes other than enabling the advent of technologies which will affect possibilities such as medicine. Cures get delayed, people die. It is not that difficult to understand. Now, you ask me where there is no cure. Let’s review where the resources, energy and attention are given, and if they may be translated to technology or directed towards medicine. We can also work on micro-aspect and check what everyone is giving attention and importance to, we will be able to know why there is no cure, and why people are dying needlessly, but I have to caveat that the common sense will haunt us all.
I might sound crudely brutal, but I speak on behalf of the desperate, the dying people, in the face of mindless common who spare no thoughts for them. It has to be a daily effort, no matter how minimal, but most would spare none.
We can and should change this mediocrity.
The U.S. entertainment and media market alone generated $479.23 billion in 2012, representing 29.2% of the worldwide revenue of nearly $1.639 trillion. In 2017, the U.S. is expected to account for $632.09 billion, or 29.4% of the worldwide total of more than $2.152 trillion. 'Cancer moonshot 2020' is $1 billion budgeted from 2016 to last for 4 years. A fool sing and dance, and the world will tune it and acclaim that jester as talented. Few even heard about 'cancer moonshot 2020', and god knows why they don't give the same amount of energy and enthusiasm, if not equal industry for such a desperate, tragic issue where countless people are dying by the hours. - 2016-12.27Tonight may be 1 of the rare nights I can sleep well. Cure may not be definite, but this is a promise of hope. We may not be able to wipe the tears of the past, but we can prevent the tears of the future. The question is - how can we be involved? We can. It's a long answer, but we can. - Re: Obama and Biden's promise of the "new moon shot" (the search for cancer cure), 2016-01.12The world is too drunk in `feel-good` factors rather than `think well` faculties. - 2016-01.22The common people pursue the libertine life of `feel-good` factor, yet rare few are sober in their mortal lives to live by `think-well` criteria. - 2016-01.23If someone tells me we are advanced enough, and it takes time to find the cure. I can cleanly and brutally tell the person - "Tell me when your loved one is diagnosed with terminal illness". - 2016-01.22How long are we going to delay the cure? How many more are we going to let death take? - Re: Delayed cures, 2016-08.27Delayed justice is denied justice. Delayed cure is denied cure. - Re: Delayed cures, 2016-08.27Positive thinking cannot change the fact that lives had been lost. - 2016-09.02What freedom are we celebrating when there is no freedom from ignorance, apathy and helplessness? - 2016-11.22You are as worthy as what you deemed worthy. - 2016-11.22If you know a tragedy will happen years from now, and your sorrow begs for a chance to re-write that tragedy, will you cherish that? This could be that second chance. You are back to - now. Don't let it happen - again. You won't get another chance to time-travel. - 2016-11.22We, humans, live so short, yet so little - foolishly. - 2016-01.23
3. … humans start working on themselves and understand what is real talent and genius that will push themselves across the next scale of Kardashev scale of civilization?
We can see clearly when we look at the lives of the people and through the walk of history that had been written or rigged. People lived all their lives on the little and parochial that they know, within their short decades, mostly less than a 100 years, and they nostalgically and poetically termed it as ‘wisdom’. Worst are the people who deemed or hail jesters who pretend all their lives for a living, and called them ‘heros’. Truly, for idiocractic sake, what ‘heroic’ things have they done? And while the world is distracted with showing off, rap and crap, and worshiping entertainers (and making them rich on trivial jesting), people are going ahead without us. We will not be getting the medical solution, and it will be a great divide of gods and mice, not just rich and poor.
While millions starved to death, they call it an ‘economy’. If it is educational, ok, but why pay them like gods? Why does the society put so much resources into something trivial and glamorized? How embarrassingly obviously foolish are the common fools, yet few realized that?
Many scientists are not given that chance as people vote their money somewhere else, and they had to `follow the money`. Therein, they cannot serve humanity and hedonism that contradicts each other. We must redesign all aspects of our lives, we must first re-focus, re-position our perspectives and re-designate our values. Talents are geese that lay the golden ideas. Foster their spirits, don’t kill their will. When money commands the market, and researchers cannot afford their work — the world can forget about their next cure. Help them to help us.
Problem with most people is that the status quo and/ or context is all they know and can understand, and they think it is their best and possible outcome.
All we need is to realize this folly and start jettisoning the old world trivialities. When we do this, the old world will be clearly gaudy to us, but now we are too used to the stench of the olfactory fatigue of the old world. We can do this. We can be better humans.
If the super-rich readily gets to invest and plan for the economy and where the direction of trend is heading, what democracy are we talking about? - 2016-01.18If the mass decides to spend on wasteful luxury instead of progressive advancements, and the super-rich panders, instigates, markets, plans and invests in that wastrel direction, what future would humanity trend? - 2016-01.18If you cannot change the world, you have to be prepared for world changes. - 2016-11.10
4. … scientists do not have to sell their integrity which is the last stronghold of sanity, and work on technology that really matters , instead of money for entertainment, — to make that difference between life and death?
If all the scientists come together and put their minds to move humanity forward, unobstructed by profit motivation, undistracted by nationalistic sentiments, how would this world be like? It would take scientists and engineers to get us to cross from type 0 to type 1 humankind. Scientists should be at least type 1 borderless people. Kingdoms come, kingdoms go. Kingdoms combine, kingdoms separate. Don’t go on the merry-go-round. Let the dogs chase their tails. Humanity has to see the first twilight of the age of technological singularity, and the cries of type 1 human civilization will be close.
Would you trust scientists and engineers for merely their ability, or rather their will to deliver their ability to their compassion?
A good scientist is akin to a good soldier, he does not understand the word “career”, he can’t be tempt by worldly powers nor distracted by the material comforts laid lavishly afore him. His great expedition, his grand discoveries — these are his mission — it is what he is born to do — not everyone is born to be a true-blooded scientist.
Yet be aware that in our today’s world, a fool can sing, dance and pretend all his life for a living, and people will be convinced that that jester is talented and pay him in millions. When s/he dies, they will build for him/her a shrine, and lament the most heartfelt eulogy. A scientist can toil all his/her life to his/her last hour, struggling with little funds and public support, whether material or moral, to labor on the most pressing and perplexing problem concerning the fate of all humanity. When s/he dies, the world won’t even know, and even if they do, they could care less. Is the world crazy, stupid, selfish, or all the above?
We are all responsible. We need to change.
Yesterday's wizards, today's scientists. - 2011-09.175. … humans move beyond the old world of inane show business and political plays and cast idiocracy to shame where the future generation will witness homosapiens walk towards the dawn of quality humans and the dawn of true civilization breaks?
Most of the times, people think they cannot do something about things are really things that they do not want to do anything about. People have more time and energy to look for ways to make money than ways to understand and remove common dangerous industrial byproduct hazards in their lives. Yet they claim that there is nothing they can do about it.
When entertainment, fashion, sports, and social media industries are flooded with money, and medicine, ecological, technological safety assurance and energy research are lacking, we know our next desperation is very near likely with the next doctor’s call or public safety announcement with helpless lack or an accident due to the lack. It is an insulting tragedy to mankind that Dr Fauci requires Julia Roberts’ twitter to gain more awareness during the pandemic.
The irony of the society becomes the tragedy for everyone. The society has bought it cheap glamour and empty vainglory. If money is the benchmark of the measurement, everyone is sold for a cheap price tag.
Prosperity should also be measured not in terms of money supplies printed or created, or demand con into commitment or addiction, but productivity scaled up and re-invented. Banks were invented less than 10 000 years ago, and it has changed since then, and perhaps things will change beyond recognition. Aluminum was once higher priced than gold. Look at the periodic table, new elements are discovered. Maybe the new items won’t even be from here, or they are baked in future labs instead of extracting from nature (it is already beginning to happen).
People vote with their attention and money. Every purchase, every investment, is a moral question people are not consciously aware of which reflects their inner desires, People actually die from moral behaviors. In economics, it is termed as “externalities”.
I used to tease my physicians if I can pay them 1/2 the amount as they only work on removal and re-adjustment of the body, but leave more than 1/2 of the main work to the body itself, i.e. immunity and healing.
Modern medicine should be ashamed of the title of being ‘modern’. It had been on pathetic crawling speed since the 19th century assisted by advances in chemistry, laboratory techniques, and equipment. These are merely in the focus of analysis, but not the synthesis of medical treatment. We hardly do anything to assist healing in terms of repair and reconstruction directly. There is not enough focus and support in the focus of genetic engineering and regenerative medicine. Scientists in all fields are falling off the tracks and exiting the arena. Why? Because the focus is voted on else where, cosmeticians, jesters are getting the attention and rewards. They are even referred to as ‘kings’ or ‘talents’ these days. The onus and sin is on the common mass, they voted with their money, but do they see the consequences? Many adamantly to rally their adherence to the status quo in the name of art and/or the cheap philosophy of life sang in emotive words. They even dismissed and label the dissidents as ‘lunatics’ or ‘communists’, along with smearing and beating down any thoughts possible contradicting their hedonistic pursuits in the trade of important life-saving work.
People will continue to die on the lack of medicine, and the world will remain stubbornly ignorant, arrogant and cowardly. So much is lost, and so many are gone — needlessly.
Eventually, the world will suffer its own folly. - 2017-10.216. … humans stop blaming and recognize they are part of the problem?
There are people chasing the drips with pans on the leaky roofs.
There are people trying to fix the leaky roofs.
There are people who just burn down the house and start all over again because the roofs are just too high to reach.
There are some that merely curse them and inherit them to their next generations.
There are also some that pretend there are no leaky roofs, and all are well.
There are some that do not know there are leaky roofs.
There are yet some that just got used to the drench, and never knew what it is like being dry.
While some just learned how to endure the drench as a way of living, they may even call it — ‘tradition’ or “just the way things are”.
There are yet some that think the leaky roofs are getting better, and they are being in fixing by themselves.
Which one is you? Or are you the 10th kind? If so, what did you do today?
7. … humans break out of imprinting programming and pre-conditioned preferences? What if humans choose to do good instead of proving themselves right for ego sake?
I don’t mean to be an iconoclast. I empathize how much we require hope, but we have to look for them at the right places, and if they don’t exist — make them. Delusional thinking, not matter how vehemently defended, how many people making up the mass (ad populum), how deeply cherished they are to us, we cannot make truth from preferences.
There are things that kills without bullets. Ego is the real poison of the country. No ego, no bullying. Ego is poison, pride is pollution. If we can remove and disarm such cancer mutually in a global scale, this is a fundamental step.
Why are people fighting prematurely over right versus wrong when none of them have yet to to fight over what is missing to complete before concluding? - 2021-12.24Ego is poison. Pride is pollution. They are the cancer to humanity. - 2011-11.09
8. … humans break out of modern idolatry and stop voting for entertainers? What if they realize the right priorities and values, and start recognizing the real builders of our civilization and true essence of our humanity?
The blend of riches, vanities and power with religious nobilities emanates a sweet intoxicating mix that chained all those who had tasted it. Pure God's doctrines amalgamates with idolatry and superstitions, reign by gods of fad and fashion; material success and kingly fames have been believed to be the Zion of God and the Hollywood usurped the pope as the vicar if Christ. Minds are shrouded with modern 'sun-worship'. - Re: Modern idolatry, 2003-07.13There is a fetish out there create superstitious propaganda out of fantasy, making mythical idols out of people we don't really know about. - 2013-01.28
9. … humans understand the illusion of all made-up systems and focus on making things work instead of blind following broken paradigms that is holding humanity back?
In business, the customers do not know what they want, and we do not know what to provide, but in mutual workings we can discover and evolve together. The customers must work to discover and manifest what they want. The market is there to serve us, and the company waltz along.
A business is also a machine, it can be built, used and refined along the way. Every business should be empowered with supporting structures. The rise and fall of a business of service depends on the preference and habits of the zeitgeist.
10. … humans think win-win and even put others before themselves? What if human focus on universal justice instead of parochial self-interest and self-righteousness?
We have to look hard and closely to understand racism. There are many sides of the story. Each side is isolating themselves. No matter who started it subtly first, both sides are creating the danger. We have to be against that form of preference. It’s racism in it’s own light. We have to understand the source of hatred. Hard, but we have to look at it, not look away.
Humans have to stop being self-serving. We curse the rich and powerful as corruptible, but check ourselves as well. Our extravagance may be as condemnable.
While the rich feast, the poor fast ... then the show of trivial percentage charity. - 2016-02.04Prejudice and preferences are 2 bias of the same. Real justice and compassion starts from universal fairness. - 2018-09.12
11. … humanity is egoless and borderless? What if they realize and build a universal family where everyone is important to them and put responsibilities upon themselves to make everyone the better version of their story in this universe and avoid tragedies from all that had been learned before?
12. … everyone is perspicuous and can think clearly?
What is the basis of your decision making? — Judgment. Judge you must, be judgmental (disparaging) you must not, and improvement on your judgement is a moral obligation, as your evaluation requires it for decision making and it cannot afford to be flawed. Most people judge and decide based on what they like, not what is right — and, sadly, most can’t tell a difference.
The question is not “should we judge?”, but “do we have the ability to judge?”, or rather “is there a flaw in my judgement?”. All decision making depends on it. Avoiding judgement is avoiding the institution of rigor logic, the ability to reason and faculty of well-informed decisions.
If you have flawed, false and incomplete information, you make flawed, false and non-concrete decisions. If you have a parochial mind, you make parochial decisions which will led to a parochial life. - 2018-05.1313. … everyone disdains competition and the zero-sum game, and worked out compounded synergy together with a better version of the outcome?
Many even choose to avoid talking too much about it. I am not just looking at the situation, I am inspecting human nature, and how we can leverage on the better side to change the way things are. If we think it is impossible, we won’t even do the bare minimum. War has to go to the museum. It will be a barbaric prehistoric thing for our generations — and it has to be in the near future.
The wage of war causes hatred, people will want to burn your flag. The reason people want to come to your country is probably opportunistic if not terrorism. They either don’t care or they come to destroy you. Your enemies are watching you. Your goods will be boycotted, and your services may be sabotaged. It is very costly to budget the service for chaos.
The wage of peace results in love, people will want to carry your flag. The reason people want to come to your country is probably because of admiration if not religious. They either care a lot and/ or they come to build you. Your friends are watching out for you. Your goods will be endorsed, and your services may be praised. It is very profitable to gain the benefits for support.
There is no need for competition is everyone works out the grand gain of collaboration.
Memorial day ... a day to remind us of wars that never should have been to have us lost our fallen ones. - 2016-05.29As competition creates apathy, alienation and aggression, profit motivation breeds dishonesty, greed and perversion. - Re: Scoorge phenomenon, 2010-08.23For any nation or company to be really strong, stable, productive and flourishing (国泰民安), it's just 4 simple words: 安居乐业 (ensure safety and contentment in living, happiness in work) - 2012-11-26I never compete - I complete. The strong complete oneself. The mighty complete everyone. - 2014-10.26The only reason why we live in a world of barbarism is because we consent to it - sometimes through our silent consent. - 2011-02.23
14. … people revisit what they could have in a more advanced civilization? What if people work together on possibilities instead of dismissing them? What if people help each other to succeed?
Understand people ... then help them to understand themselves. We are just luckier in terms of physics to be part of the 1st group. When you are in the 2nd group, you would hope for better empathy and clemency. - 2020-07.28Uniting all mankind does not mean centralism, it is to eradicate parochialism that is dictating the ignorance of the everyday Joe. We need to clear that that myopia that is discounting the possibility that we are living in.
We have to find a way to remove pain, sorrow and suffering. It is also our opportunity to find that complete solution — our target and vision of salvation. That solution will save us all. Our limited thinking is our own curse and it should be clear by now that we consider the happiness of others, eventually, that limitedness will revisit us in form of tragedy. It will be a question that will return to haunt us on the incompleteness of resolution. No one should be lacking, deprived or incomplete. Let that be a goal for all humanity — every single one of us.
15. … people understand what and why they are feeling the way they do, and start to think deeply instead of careening their lives on shallow feelings and giving branded poetic labels to cheap feelings?
16. … people can go beyond their preferences and work out the most optimal outcomes instead of myopic bigotry?
What we like and what is like often departs, unless we are divine. - 199717. … people start valuing genuine, sincere and compassion people instead of branded people?
The kind of “leaders” we admire reflects our deeper values and character of the kind of person we are. If we envy cocky, cold-blooded, blood thirsty, hoarding psychopaths, it may reflect a mold of personality of our own desires. If we are drawn towards high-minded, passionate altruists, it draws a theme of our inner moral spirit.
Even when people choose their social circles, most people seems to feel more pain from the words of others, rather than the pain from their own labor, because if they had work earnestly, their wordless, painstaking efforts will give little space for the pain to the words of others. If they have more words than works, clearly they can only lie to their hearts, instead of genuinely answering to it.
You can deny all you want on fake-feel-good delusional positivism, but on your way down under the laws of physics, do not drag anyone along with you with your stupidity. You are to remained in the filtered positivism, until the laws of physics reminds you what you had been filtering. - 2018-05.15We need more scientists and more focus on science not entertainment. We need more people to focus on the Nobels instead of the Oscars. We need more brain power, instead of “fake-it-till-you-make-it” style over substance on the path to …. fraud convictions.
18. … people start making better version of the next civilization with better parenting as they work hard on themselves to be worthy parents? What if people start thinking clearly of their existence and build meaning for themselves so that they can inherit them?
Unsound mentality can be inherited through indoctrination known as tradition and religion. The process can be likely through — parenting. We can blame education for being inadequate to prepare us for life, but why haven’t we ascribed that to parenting?
Many tragedies, such as school shooting, could have been easily prevented if we are brutal honest about bad parenting. There are criminals out there, we just have to check on bad parents and bad parenting. Why wait for things to happen when they are already beginning — now?
A: Kids should not bring guns to school.B: Teachers should police on bullying constantly, the kids who brings gun either to fend off or conduct the intimidation would be checked.C: Stop bullying in school? Adults have not even solved bullying in workplace or even between countries invading each other.D: The concept of ego and pride should be re-taught so that there is no need for 'win or lose', 'strong or weak'.E: Why isn't philosophy taught in school? It is a good base for refining thinking and the character. People's thinking and the way they made decision would be very different. People will not find the need to feed their pride and ego in workplace and in nationalistic pursuits. The world will thence be very different. Education and parenting should be re-thought about.F: Culture and values should be re-thought about. Corporate culture, nationalistic values, education and parenting will follow.G: They just have to start a conversation like this, but reasoning should first be guided. People just don't want to think about topics indepth.Me: You guys just got to the root of many problems, though you started with `kids should not be bringing guns to school`. What are our next steps?
- Re: When minds come together to build great ideals, 2001
The people do not need political leaders. They need good parenting. If you have good people, the political leaders are irrelevant.
Most people may not as ready for 3 things: gun ownership, democracy and parenting. - 2012-12.15You can't teach conscience to those who had already sold it. - 2015-12.23
19. … people start working on better quality humans so that they can have better society and a more refined version of democracy?
Democracy is a complete failure with the overemphasis of majority over sound reasoning and reasonableness, much driven by the paranoiac drive to preserve liberty at whatever cost, whatever reasons, and whatever madness. While mistaken for the purport for an autocracy for pointing the flaws of an unsound democracy, the fact of the rule under mass stupidity and illusive civility is unchecked for the sake of rampant and promiscuous liberty, deterring the possibility of a workable system. We need reasonable democracy. We need refined people who are willing to educate and refine themselves continuously.
Every vote should not be merely be tagged with a right, it must be labeled with a reason. — Re: Reasonable democracy, 2010-09.06Democracy will always be cheapen if it is based on ad populum majority of self-affiliated, self-interest seeking, instead of on the basis of universal justice, optimality and empathy. - 2016-03.10
20. … people start living life perspicaciously and minimize tragedies, misery and suffering if not eradicating them? What if people start abandoning cheap and jejune values and perspectives? What if people realize they don’t have to repeat history and tragedies which they did not sincerely learn properly in the first place?
I am trying to be hopeful that history do not repeat itself but I have no faith on that. How can it not repeat itself when people remains with past mentality that created the history? - 2016-03.09History is re-created by at least by 2 ways :
1. With the same mentality, thinking it's different and matters are unrelated.
2. With the same mentality, not thinking at all, and have no matters to compare.
- 2016-03.09
21. … people break the spell of delusional Superiority Complex and work earnestly to better themselves and for better universal possibilities?
People are entitled to their own opinions and they should be if they are willing to back their bill of rights with the bill of responsibilities to ensure no one else is paying for their rights. We need to examine the agenda of pushing one’s words with no works. If someone finds a problem, s/he should offer solutions — workable ones. Unless the intent is for self-checking. No one is absolutely sure about anything. No culture is entitle to any endorsement or respect, it has to be earned. Many traditions, unchecked and unquestioned, is exploiting the people. Mindless adoption itself is poses questions on the clarity and rationality of the individual’s mind. Judge we must, but being judgmental is another basis.
22. … people ardently keep refining education and culture, along with their relentless dissatisfaction of their own character?
It is an irony, if not hypocrisy, that we encourage our children to prepare for the future and soar their imagination, and yet we restrain our adults to keep in line and stay within the bounds of acceptable norms and expected behavior for the sake of unchallenged and unchecked time-cherished traditions.
I find it disturbing that logos (logic) is not taught in school. If reasoning is not a skill, the rest are merely unthinking classes. Without that faculty sound and complete, or least, part of the design, education is futile and lame. Get that faculty and the rest is details. Language is not really a vital part. People used to think that they think in words — they really do think in symbols and symbolism.
Create the need and reason for the children to learn, then facilitate and conduce the means for them to do so. They will work and evolve for it.
The far future depends on the clarity of thoughts which we do not have today. People must be honest that we do not have the answer and should not pretend to know, but work collaborative to work out the answer together.
The quality of humans is key to progress. We require an empathetic and egoless unified world. Unified yet not to bind nor to blind everyone, but to connect to perspectives and free ignorance. People can chose to be isolated and introverted, but they cannot chose to be apathetic.
We need to not just uplift people from poverty, we need to uplift people from poverty in thinking and lower Maslow’s needs, so that they can thrive instead of merely survive. If we let humans remain as lower life forms, the civilization will remain as lower type form.
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Wife to Mikail: You have expectation of people, that is why you are disappointed.Me: That is true, but if I have no expectation of them being minimally human, how can I even respect them as one?- 2018-02.02
"""“老吾老，以及人之老；幼吾幼，以及人之幼。”
出自《孟子·梁惠王上》一文，指的是在赡养孝敬自己的长辈时不应忘记其他与自己没有亲缘关系的老人。 在抚养教育自己的小孩时不应忘记其他与自己没有血缘关系的小孩。
"When caring for our old, think and care for the old of others. When caring for our young , think and care for the young of others. people." (refers to the fact that when you care for, support and honor your elders, you should never forget and exclude those unrelated to you. When raising, caring and educating your own children, you should not forget and exclude other children who are not related to you likewise.) - Mencius in conversation with King Liang HuiAre your students more compassionate in their passions which you are imparting or is education merely survival instead of passion?
When the superior man learns knowledge, he becomes refined and love people. - 2014-10.25When the small-minded learns knowledge, he becomes manipulated by fundamentalist rigidity. - ConfuciusTeach the children to re-invent their lives. - 2017-10.27
23. … people start to learn to see hope and possibilities, and start working on them — every single day?
Plan without a method remains merely a wish. - 2018-09.09Before we give hope, we must demonstrate a possibility. - 2018-09.09
What if people become aware and willing to live the solution that is Simple But No Less Painful?
Better Humans Are The Solution Of That Possible World …
Is it the government or the people under the government that is abusing authority under their own camp? It may be just another phenomenon of the Stanford Prison Experiment.
I have stated countless times which is turned to the deaf ear by many that it is a human quality problem, no matter which system it is. Why ignore it when so many tragedies can be prevented?
People say human will never change, and let it adrift to status quo in the self-defeating, self-fulfilling prophecy. Civilization is within our engineering, it is not just the science, but the will. This is why education itself failed, the character and the will has never been part of the curriculum.
Most people are happy in 2 sense:
1. They lower their expectation to live beneath the system
2. They compare themselves to people less fortunate to distract themselves from anything beyond the system, so that all thinking will still remain — within the system, surviving the status quo in surrendered passivity.
Our current self-preserving society engenders greed, hatred, anguish, injustice, tremendous self-made scarcity, regrets, hopelessness, and unnecessary human tragedies and suffering, while all these are just next to the possibility of empathy, compassion, passion, inspiring joy, true emancipation and a world of possibilities beyond our imagination if and only if we had taken that step away from myopic selfishness.
The Break Of A New Dawn, The End Of The Eclipse Of The `Modern Dark Ages`
Ideas And Ideals That Can Make A Happier, Healthier, and Better World
We have to let everyone know it does not have to be this way. Passion and compassion are all we need to bring the human race together and move them forward, we don’t need pride. Pride is a source of paranoia, superiority complex, inferiority complex, and all forms of obsessions and bigotry. It is, therefore, a mental illness itself. Pride is pollution, ego is poison; they are the cancer to mankind.
What is your most important life goal? How is it time dependent? Are you trying to win the Fields Medal (which is age dependent unfortunately)? Are you despair from other people’s opinion, standards, expectation, or your own. If it is independent of others, you are not ruined.
You can’t change the fact over lost time, and maybe you don’t have to. Check from your ruins (which you claim) and gather if there could be something you can write the story ahead? Perhaps, you will shift your paradigm once your awareness is expanded, and your most important life goal is no longer the same definition. Your game has changed, and your definition has changed it’s initial confines. You might have found a more important target, and the one that you thought might be no longer as important, hence it will no longer be your most important life goal. Change your dimensions, change your definitions, and your possibilities will no longer be the same.
This is a tribute and reminiscence for everyone with a dream buried within a memory in their past — hopefully unforgotten and alive somewhere.
You may not achieve anything in life. You may even be having disadvantage in some physical or mental faculties. You may not have much in life to offer to anyone, but … if you love and care deeply for someone, just this by itself — it makes you not just a wonderful person, it makes you a great person … to me — at least. This is my message to you.
Start from us. Let’s be better versions of ourselves. Think beyond, think clearly. As forebears to be, it will be the greatest gift to our progeny and posterity to come. Thence, we may consider ourselves worthy by our works, and great by our spirits. These are the fruits that we may bestow and inherit to our children.
The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.
― Carl Sagan (November 9, 1934 — December 20, 1996,), Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Your worth of life is the sum of the quality of time-energy focus you spend now. What do you give your focus to today? - 2016-12.27If you want a possibility beyond the life you know, look outside the bubble. - 2018-01.28Many a times, the possibilities are beyond the confines and context of the current situation. - 2020-01.01Reality is hardly half as sweet as any fantasy from even the dullest mind. - 2004-07.05Rich or poor, good or evil, I just want everyone to be happy and healthy. - 2014-01.25
Eine Welt in Geburtswehen.
Wir werden diese Welt liefern.
Diese Morgendämmerung kommen wird.A world in labor pains.
We will deliver this (possible) world.
This dawn will come.