It’s one of the most overused phrases in modern times. However, what “the world needs,” truly, is for us to get clear on what it is we even mean when we say “world”. Do you mean all of humanity? The earth? Both? The Western world? The third? Whose world are we referring to with our grandiose sentiments? And how the hell do we get off speaking as if we have any clue about what the world needs?
Tag: culture and society
In this age of big data, it seems evident that the only way to get truthful, impartial information—synthesized, analyzed, and collated from all across the world, inclusive of all gathered information since we started doing so, regardless of language, agenda, dogma, bias, borders, politics, or budget—will be through employing the natural evolution of said data: A.I.
To come together in any sort of peace, unity, cooperation, and planetary harmony, humanity needs a solidifying, stabilizing, magnetizing purpose that allows us to channel our need for struggle, challenge, and contrast—one that impels us toward greater ideals than infighting, warring over imaginary lines in the dirt and resources, and bickering over dogma and spiritual ignorance.
There is much to complain about these days, isn’t there? Our Western society is rife with imbalances, violence, judgements, labels, polarity, superficiality, and spiritual disembodiment. One could almost call it conspiratorial in nature, as if some malevolent forces are at work to keep us discontented, disconnected, and dysfunctional.
The way we look at sacrifice is backward. I’m referring to the kind of sacrifice we think we’re making when we accept the rules and…