A Big Picture Goal For Humanity and How We Get There

Could there ever be a plan to fix everything that is wrong in the world, or at least an outline that could start to be used as such a plan? Of course, “wrong” is a somewhat subjective idea or at the least is highly debated, so on the face of it, no. Nevertheless, it’s and interesting exercise to try.

First, to keep it simple, start with a clear big picture goal. The one below, on first thought, seems like it should be shared by most or all humans. In cases where it is not, there are opportunities for growth.

Big Picture Humanity Goal:

A long, healthy deeply satisfying life for every person

 

Sounds like a start, but what about survival of the human race? That is included, perhaps, because it is a requisite for every person (into the future) to have a long healthy deeply satisfying life.

Given this big goal, what areas of wishes would get us there?

 

1. Public Health:

End Pandemics. Honesty about all options and odds at success. Be prepared for the next challenges. Affordable healthcare. End obesity and diabetes End organ specific ailments–heart, lung, liver, kidney, nervous system and digestive diseases. Establish a culture of exercise as preventative medicine. End cigarette smoking and chemical dependency. Get psychedelic medicines approved for medical use. Crowd source best current cures for all human diseases. Use artificial intelligence and other tech. Make death from old age optional. Promote best practices for optimal health and longevity: diet, exercise, sleep, toxin avoidance, supplements, social environment and so on, with evidence-based independently verified resources. Free periodic environmental review for living space toxins.

Acknowledge our species-wide avoidance of facts evidenced by existential anxiety, ego, denial, hypocrisy, selection bias, religious divide, political divide, etc. Understand IQ. Do all people have an equal abilities to comprehend and to learn? Teach and eliminate logical fallacies–straw man, ad hominem, etc. Agree on definitions. E.g. Someone who states what they believe to be true is, by most definitions, not a liar, even if what they say is false. They may be delusional, ill educated, careless, irrational, etc. rather than intentionally deceptive. Employ reality check technologies. Factuality of information can be given a sliding scale score based on objectively observable criteria with sources linked to non-tamper-able logs showing the chain of evidence to all.

We can get to a place where everyone basically trusts everyone else–with good reason–to be honest, fair, informed, etc. Along with the Truth Awareness movement, restore trust in media, trust in US government, trust in education, trust in corporations to act within established boundaries and in checks-and-balances to keep everything working.

With awareness of projected population growth, compare energy technologies. Show challenges to feed and provide water for world for the next 100 years.  Mine asteroids. Promote alternative resource generating technologies. Promote birth control.

Toward individual and community energy & food independence. Disaster preparedness. How and why to grow your own food. Food storage. Home energy generation. Establishing trade relationships. Community networks.

May lead to goals like: “Use all world resources needed to stop Fukushima from killing life on earth.”, Everyone clean something local that makes a difference to health of food and water supplies. Retool to end industrial pollution.

Best data, upcoming threats. Climate is a US top security threat. What is within our power to mitigate and what is not? If the planet is dying and we can’t stop it, if we only have 200 years or less to extinction and this is known, should it be shared? Do we want to spend centuries with that depressing awareness? Would humanity devolve into chaos?

For all: a home, a job, a partner, hobbies, health, savings, comfort, a deep peace and love of life. Develop metrics. Emotional honesty and emotional intelligence and awareness. Improve mental health. Uplift and advertise people’s breakthroughs of self-awareness as successes. Remove obstacles to freedom of speech. All feel safe, cared about, heard, encouraged, guided, free to experiment. Help people find their true passions and skills. Allow everyone time for art, music, culture, to create something daily, if desired. Build social capital – support and civic engagement. Make singleness optional. Anyone could asked to be matched at no cost with a willing compatible mate. Utilize Artificial Intelligence (with privacy) to identify and solve personal problems from what worked in the past tapping the vast database of human experiences.

Affordable education for all. Improve education. Explain diversity and foster acceptance. Establish boundaries, rights when there is conflict. Teach pros and cons of religious choices and differences. Teach history superstition. Is religion essential to non-criminal behavior? Show that due to genetic anomalies, epi-genetic factors, differences in hormones, etc., gender, race and other phenotypic expressions of biology exist on a continuum. End homelessness. Improve education around human sexuality. Voting “on the block chain,” for transparency, non-tamperability, anonymity.

Develop and share publicly and revise as needed 100 yr, 500 yr, 1,000 yr, and 10,000 year plans for humanity to survive and thrive. Within that context, provide a new long term economic system (e.g. based on quantum encryption). Provide job placements with good fits in meaningful jobs as a human right. End tax on income; we are not slaves, we therefore own our labor. Income sufficiency. Economic optimism about own potential for earning.

What about crime? What about “punishing bad people?” If every person has adequate love, affection, attention, health, resources, money and room to express him or herself, if everyone knows everyone and appreciates them, won’t motivations for crime and social deviance be very rare? The presumption here, which may or may not be incorrect, is that within a generation, the conditions that lead to narcissistic personality disorder and other socially manipulative personality traits will be eliminated; these behaviors will go extinct, with people marveling at the fact that they even happened.

These are just some early thoughts and naive wishes on the topic of a big picture humanity-wide goal. What will come of it, or something like it, remains to be seen.