Some Ugly Truths No One Wants To Talk About

Mi'kail Eli'yah
52 min readOct 20, 2018

人是在进化, 还是在进化中退化? — 倪匡, 卫斯理传奇
Has mankind progressed, or regressed in their delusive progression? — Ni Kuang, Legend of Wisely

A group of friends gathered 30 years ago and they listed a some problems humanity is facing from their point of experiences. As I was reviewing the journal, this list resurfaces from the past. I added notes from from further notes collected from addendum and insights from friends along the way since, and the challenges they identified remain relevant even to this day. I remain faithful and hopeful, and hence, a later letter to humanity, `Give That Possible World A Chance`, was written.

To have a better society, and better lives for everyone, we need better people. To have better people, we have to give them better conditions to be so. That means we have to ensure food, water, medicine, and resources for improvement for everyone, everyday, such as school and educational facilities to enhance themselves. Why worry, waste, and wear off human opportunities like that? How is basic safety for people is so hard to achieve today? The economy has become a predatory monster and the coldness of the society drains and bleeds out the humanity in people. How is that people are not understanding the most “obvious obvious”?

Krista Gordon: What is it about society that disappoints you so much?Elliot Alderson: Oh, I don’t know. Is it that we collectively thought Steve Jobs was a great man, even when we knew he made billions off the backs of children? Or…

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