Fully Human -- at last!


 After about two million years of evolution, it is time to become fully human.

This means that conflicts of interest between peoples and nations will no longer be solved by killing off or enslaving "the enemy".

No More Wars! 

Said conflict of interest will be resolved, as they are now within families.

Equitable sharing of nature-given, free resources will be practiced via peaceful trade between nations.

Characteristics of the possible good world: 
No wars, no poverty, no oppression, no avoidable suffering.

A question for social scientists:

If we can go to the moon, invent the atom bomb, send a telescope to L2 more than a million miles away, and produce all manner of technological miracles; why not make the best possible world become reality?

Why do social sciences fail to solve simple problems like poverty, a fair distribution of resources discovering the truth behind what see as contradictory facts, and the like?

One obvious reason is that they deal with a reality that contains human participants with a volition of their own and a capacity to resist change.

A blacksmith can turn a lump of iron into a fine steel blade by hammering out impurities and folding it into layers each with different desirable qualities. No such brute method can be applied to change people or social structures.

This is Kairos time when "miracles" can happen: a tiny nudge at critical points can enable transformative changes.
But it is not easy to see these points of high leverage. We have not been helped by our education to learn to think well. So have to make up for that lack by learning in adult years.

To illustrate the deeper meaning of the above, consider how much simpler it is to put out fires compared to catching an arsonist on the loose. 
This is where the technique of Root Cause Analysis can be of great help if learned*.

Proposals for a better organised human world abound throughout history. In spite of that we suffer recurring scourge of wars.
The possibility of Perpetual Peace between Nations was presented among many other writers in history  by Emanuel Kant in 1795.
       Note at Amazon: 
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Perpetual-Peace-Immanuel-Kant/dp/1533629994/ref=sr_1_2 
Perpetual peace refers to a state of affairs where peace is permanently established over a certain area. The idea of perpetual peace first came up during the 18th century, when Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre published his essay "Project for Perpetual Peace" anonymously while working as the negotiator for the Treaty of Utrecht. However, the idea did not become well known until the late 18th century. The term perpetual peace became acknowledged when German philosopher Immanuel Kant published his 1795 essay "Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch". Perpetual peace has had significant influence upon modern politics. Perpetual peace has been the foundation for peace and conflict studies, a relatively newly laid field which started in Europe around the 1950s and 1960s
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https://archive.org/details/lastingpeacethro00sainrich/page/n141/mode/2up

A lasting peace through the federation of Europe; and, The state of war

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*A draft essay will be uploaded to indicate the potency of this kind of "late learning" (when I learn how (:-).


Comments

  1. Janos Abel28 May 2024 at 10:47

    So, please, dare to think big and believe that ten thousand years of bad behaviour can be abandoned. Believe this even if we do not yet know how.
    The guiding principle here is: "A proposition's 'what' and 'why' are more important than the 'how'.

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