Positive attitude is enough?

 

Positive attitude is enough?

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere we go, but I am hardly going anywhere. 80% of humanity is unvaccinated and I (foolishly?) wish to remain alive. People accuse me of being a “slave to the government lies”. Somehow my mind is stuck on the idea that all the world’s governments are not trying to reduce the population by injecting us with slow-acting poison. Our governments invested heavily in developing means to combat an alien life-form that kills us. Now we are discovering a new old truth that we are not OK unless all of us are.

It’s tempting to make a lot of money on selling a vaccine, but we may die if it keeps mutating in those not vaccinated. A mirror is placed in front of our face and a voice is saying. We can't be OK unless all of us are OK. Strange message considering that we learned something else. Beat the competition. Each for himself. On the other hand, a chain is as strong as its weakest link.

If we consider my age and health, I should be more interested in sales on funeral services than what may destroy humankind in a few years, or perhaps the world’s atmosphere in a hundred years. However, I have an intellectual interest. That and a bunch of grandkids. In my days, there were still people around who were willing to die with honour or die for the country. The country I always thought of was the Earth and its people. Archeologists so far never discovered which race or nation Adam and Eve came from.

The latest threats popularized by our instant but not perfect media are pandemics, this one or the next, and economic collapse and damage to the thin layer of air we call atmosphere. We don’t need to worry about any of them. Long before they kill us, we will kill each other.

When there is trouble in the world, a strange thing happens. The people demand that the governments will fix the troubles if they caused them or not. We pay little attention to the news and what the governments are doing until there is trouble and we blame them if they don’t fix it fast. They are hammered from both ends. Above them, there is the high society that usually finances their being in power. They demand a return on investment. Below them, there are the billions of people who always want better conditions, easier life, the things that the high society has and they do not. What should the governments do? They try to get people’s attention away from the problems that they can’t solve. A proven way that always worked is to go to war. When we are busy killing each other, we rally behind the leaders. The high society finds ways to make money on wars.

Most things that humans used to associate with the powers of gods now can be done if you have the money to make it happen. We fly, see in the dark, raise the dead, level mountains, beat pandemics, you name it and we can do it. The hand of a very rich man can smite nations as well. People worship money and its power. Money can finance scientific research and buy technology that yet doesn’t exist. The world is being shaped according to what the few with most money desire.

I receive messages from people telling me that the way things are is not bad at all. Looking around, I see that the train we are on is speeding towards disaster unless we take action to stop or divert it. There is a bright future but we must aim for it.

The prophets of old used to say, repent and God will solve the situation, and at times, people did.

Global Warming is hurting us tremendously but it only just began. We can take hard steps starting now. Our existing technology is such that in a few moves we should be able to develop and use cleaner and soon clean energy. We must divert many resources to it starting immediately. Thorium reactors, small nuclear cores, new vehicles, and so on, can go on the production line. With some coordination and global will to unite efforts, the dream can come to fruition.

Changes to consumption habits are another solution. We know that our treatment of food and its use are major pollution producers. First, wealthy nations can develop and popularize less wasteful habits. We don’t have to discard half of the food we produce. It can be controlled simply by not trying to use food as a major money-making source but a needed commodity. It happens naturally when there are shortages. Next, we can easily get our proteins from less polluting, less wasteful foods and distribute them more evenly. Easy to do if we convert public opinions. We know how to do it; we have done it in the case of smoking. Yes, we will have demonstrations and crying over freedoms, but yes we can.

All we have to do is champion a new way. We built our entire history around groups of people, nations, and races competing with each other for resources and world domination. The competition served us well by advancing human civilization to where it is now. It is time to apply the breaks and start filling the gaps we left behind in every aspect of life.

We could apply the Canadian experience to the entire world and make it into a quilt of enormous proportions. All the beauty and usefulness of all the pieces can be preserved, but the primary goal would change. Instead of fighting, competing, and winning or conquering the world, we would aim to make it a better place for all. Using the united power of all, we can transform the planet into a Heaven for all. Just the money that we spend on wars and weapons is more than enough to do the job. The entire world could be like our little paradise in the mountains.

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