The _real_ big picture..

Picture this..

A species that has figured out how to reach moon and walk on its soil,
built machines that defy gravity and fly
built machines that enable people to see and hear things very far away

and done hundred other such wonders,

hasn't still figured out how to live without the gnawing fear and suspicion about ones own neighbour (whether a person, community or country)

hasn't figured out how people can live without insecurity

hasn't figured out how to ensure basic needs are attainable by all.

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It just shows that cleverness, scientific wizardy and mastery are just too inadequate to live. Most of it not be even necessary, while some of them can be quite helpful.

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What has been our 'social learning' over these centuries, and over trillions of whatever currency worth of economic progress?

I think we can count some..

1. We are not cannibals anymore. We don't kill anybody and eat. Perhaps figuratively yes, but at least not literally

2. The kind of orphanages seen in Dickens' novels are a thing of past in western world. They still thrive, and there are ghettos and slums worse than that in many other parts of the world

3. We don't stone people to death and the judicial process is lot more civil. (Yes there are some areas where these things still happen, but they are few.. sigh.)

Well, unable to come up with a longer list. I have tried..

We have seen Moore's law in action. We have seen agricultural and industrial revolutions multiplying economic capabilities of people, though also widening the inequalities. We have seen reports of global warming and impending disaster due to neglect of environment. We are seeing school children going to school and shooting their teachers and fellow students.

It appears as if the human race is incapable or consciously choosing not to learn to live right. The singularity in learning to live life has not happened over the millennia. We have had technological singularities . There is no such intelligence explosion in human living whereby sorrow, fear and suspicion are a thing of past and people know to live.

The more I think the more it appears an act of omission and commission by the society at large and carefully and very crafty way executed in our education system and the ladder and path the world shows in front of all.

It's a big matrix, a treacherous one. Where even the schemer isn't aware that he is also part of the scheme and is schemed in as well, and is merely role-playing and fulfilling the 'scheme'.

It is at once very revealing and huge insight.

Now the next obvious question is, should it continue like this? Rather can it continue like this for long?

Going by extrapolation and experience of human kind, are there any ways out? Hasn't this been the case since time immemorial, only getting more capable in hatred and in its expression, and greed and in it's expression ? Haven't people tried to break loose and also to break loose all? If it hasn't worked then why would it now? What's different now?