Enlightened Society/government

[Wyatt]

Let's suppose that a whole country of people become enlightened and decided to completely change their culture to meet the needs of their now enlightened citizens, how would their government be structured? What would their political systems be like?

[Prabhaker]

8 minutes ago, Wyatt said:

What would their political systems be like?

MERITOCRACY - POWER IN THE HANDS OF THE INTELLIGENTSIA

ONE THING IS absolutely certain: The days of the politicians are over. They have done too well their job of being destructive, violent.

Nothing is favorable to the politician; and as each day passes his death comes closer. He himself is responsible. He improved the weapons, which can bring death to the whole world, to such a point that there is no way of going back. Either there will be an ultimate war – which means death to all and everything – or a total change of the whole structure in the human society. I am calling that change "meritocracy."

One thing – we have to drop the idea that every man, just because he is twenty-one, is capable of choosing who is the right person to decide the fate of nations. Age cannot be a decisive factor. We have to change the decisive factor; that is changing the very foundation.

My suggestion is that only a person who is at least a matriculate, a high school graduate, will be able to vote. His age does not matter.

For the local government, matriculation will be the qualification for the voters. And graduation from a university, at least a bachelor's degree, should be a necessary qualification for anybody running for election, for the candidates. A master's degree should be a minimum qualification for the one who is running for mayor.

For the state elections, graduation with a bachelor's degree should be the minimum qualification for the voters. A master's degree in science, the arts, commerce, should be the necessary degree for the candidates. For the cabinet ministers an M.A. with highest honors should be the minimum necessary qualification; more will be, of course, more appreciated. And anybody trying to become a cabinet minister will have to know something about the subject. His qualification should correspond to the subject matter that he is going to deal with in his term of office.

So if somebody is going to be an education minister, then his qualifications should make him capable of being an education minister.

He should have at least a master's degree in education with highest honors; with less than highest honors nobody should be a minister on the state level. Yes, if he has better degrees – doctor of education, Ph.D. in education – that is good, that will make him more qualified.

The attorney general should have at least a doctorate in law, an LL.D.– not less than that, because he is going to defend the law of the state, the rights of the citizens. He should have the best degree possible so he knows everything about it.

The governor should have the best of all the degrees possible for him: M.A. with highest honors, Ph.D. – his Ph.D. should be in political science – and at least one honorary degree, a D.Litt. or LL.D.

For the federal government, a master's degree will be the voter's minimum qualification. A master's degree with highest honors and a Ph.D. should be the minimum for the candidates running for election. And the ministers should all have the highest degrees in the subjects for which they are going to be ministers. If it is education then the highest degrees in education available in the country; if it is going to be health, then the highest degrees in health available in the country.

The president should have at least two Ph.D.s and one honorary D.Litt. or LL.D.; and the same for the vice-president because he can become president any day. In this way mobocracy is destroyed. Then just because you are twenty-one it does not mean you are capable of choosing the government.

Choosing the government should be a very skillful, intelligent job.

Just by being twenty-one you may be able to reproduce children – it needs no skill, no education, biology sends you well prepared. But to choose the government, to choose people who are going to have all the powers over you and everybody, and who are going to decide the destiny of the country and the world, just to be twenty-one is certainly not enough...the way we have been choosing them is simply idiotic.

I would like all the universities – within each state – to call a convention of all the vice-chancellors and the eminent professors; of the eminent intelligentsia who may not be part of the university: painters, artists, poets, writers, novelists, dancers, actors, musicians. It would include all dimensions of talents, all kinds of people who have shown their caliber – excluding politicians completely.

All the Nobel Prize winners should be invited – excluding the politicians again, because within these past few years a few politicians have been given Nobel Prizes, and this has degraded the value of the Nobel Prize.

So from each state a delegation should be chosen for the national convention, which goes into details of how the meritocracy can work.

From the national candidates there should be an international convention of all the universities of the world and the intelligentsia. This would be the first of its kind because never has the whole intelligentsia of the world come together to decide the fate of humanity. They should write the first constitution of the world.

It will not be American, it will not be Indian, it will not be Chinese – it is going to be simply the constitution of the whole of humanity. There is no need for different kinds of laws. There is no need – all human beings need the same kind of laws.

And a world constitution will be a declaration that nations are no longer significant.

They can exist as functional units but they are no longer independent powers. And if the whole intelligentsia of the world is behind this convention it will not be very difficult to convince the generals of the world to move away from the politicians.

And what power do politicians have? All the power that they have we have given to them. We can take it back. It is not their power, it is our power. We just have to find a way to take it back – because giving is very easy, taking is a little difficult. They will not be so simple and innocent when you take the power back as they were when they were asking it from you. It is our power, but they will go on having it if the mob remains there to give it to them; the mob can be convinced about anything.

It is the function of the intelligentsia.... I would like to say that now, if anything happens to humanity, the whole condemnation will go to the intelligentsia: "What were you doing? If those idiots were ready to kill humanity, what were you doing? You simply went on grumbling, being grumpy, but you did nothing else."

And the time is running short. Once we decide that the voting power is not the birthright of every human being but is a right which you will have to earn by your intelligence.... You have to see the distinction: Everybody is given the opportunity to earn it, there is equal opportunity for all to earn it, but it is nothing birth-given; you have to prove it.

Once we move the power from the mob into the hands of intelligent people, people who know what they are doing, we can create something beautiful.

If a man who has devoted his whole life to thinking about education and its problems, has done all that was possible to do to find out every detail, every fundamental of education, all the possible philosophies of education – if he becomes an education minister, there is a possibility that he will do something.

I suggest to shift completely from the mob to the chosen few.

I am not against the people. In fact, in the hands of these politicians, the people are against themselves. I am all for the people, and what I am saying can be said to be exactly what has been said about democracy: for the people, by the people, of the people – just "by the people" I will have to change. This intelligentsia will be for the people, of the people. It will be serving the masses.

It is so simple a thing. You don't elect a doctor, and just anybody can stand, because it is a birthright and people can vote...two persons fighting to be the doctor or to be the surgeon. What is wrong in it? The people choose for themselves: for the people, by the people, of the people. They choose one person – to be the surgeon – because he speaks better, he looks good on the television and he makes great promises.

But he is not even a butcher, and he is going to become a surgeon! A butcher would have been better; at least he would have known how to cut – but you don't choose a surgeon by election.

How can you choose a president by election? How can you choose a governor by election? For one post so many people are hankering, desiring. Those who are most sick with ambitiousness will fight the most, they will kill – they will do anything.

You are giving so much power to power-hungry people; with your own hands you are helping them to hang you!

This is not democracy.

In the name of democracy these people have been exploiting the masses.

So politicians and priests both have to be dropped out of their long, long-standing establishment, and a totally new kind of management has to be developed.

Just to make a distinction I am calling my system "meritocracy." But merit for what? The merit is to serve and share. And once you have decided to shift the power from the politicians to the intelligentsia, everything is possible – everything becomes simple.

Meritocracy is a whole program of transforming the structure of society, the structure of the government, the structure of education.

It is a difficult job, arduous but not impossible – particularly in such a situation when death is the only alternative.

The Golden Future ~ Osho

[Prabhaker]

REVENGE OR UNDERSTANDING: THE RULE OF LAW OR OF LOVE

ALL LEGAL SYSTEMS are nothing but the revenge of society – revenge against those who don't fit in with the system. According to me, law is not for protection of the just, it is for protection of the crowd mind – whether it is just or unjust does not matter. Law is against the individual and for the crowd. It is an effort to reduce the individual and his freedom, and his possibility of being himself.

The latest scientific researches are very revealing – perhaps ten percent of the people who are termed criminals are not responsible for their crimes; their crimes are genetic, they inherit them. Just as a blind man is not responsible for his blindness, a murderer is not responsible for his murderousness. Both inherit the tendency – one of blindness, another of committing murder.

Now it is an established scientific fact that punishing anybody for any crime is simply idiotic. It is almost like punishing somebody because he has tuberculosis – sending him to jail because he is suffering from cancer. All criminals are sick, psychologically and spiritually both.

In my vision of a commune, the courts will not consist of law experts, they will consist of people who understand genetics and how crimes are inherited from generation to generation. They have to decide not for any punishment, because every punishment is wrong – not only wrong, every punishment is criminal.

The man who has committed anything wrong has to be sent to the right institution – a psychiatric institution, or a psychoanalytic school, or maybe a hospital, to be operated on. He needs our sympathy, our love, our help. Instead of giving him our sympathy and love, for centuries we have been giving him punishment. Man has committed so much cruelty behind such beautiful names as order, law, justice.

The new man will not have any jails and will not have any judges and will not have any legal experts.

These are absolutely unnecessary, cancerous growths on the body of society. There will certainly have to be sympathetic scientists, meditative, compassionate beings to work out why it happened that a certain man committed rape: is he really responsible? According to me, on no account is he responsible. Either he has committed rape because of the priests and the religions teaching celibacy, repression for thousands of years – this is the outcome of a repressive morality – or biologically he has hormones which compel him to commit rape.

Although you are living in a modern society, most of you are not contemporaries because you are not aware of the reality that science goes on discovering. Your educational system prevents you from knowing it, your religions prevent you from knowing it, your governments prevent you from knowing it.

The man who is committing rape perhaps has more hormones than those moral people who manage to live with one woman for their whole life, thinking that they are moral. A man with more hormones will need more women; so will be the case with a woman. It is not a question of morality, it is a question of biology. A man who commits rape needs all our sympathy, needs a certain operation in which his extra hormones are removed, and he will cool down, calm down.

To punish him is simply an exercise in stupidity.

By punishing, you cannot change his hormones. Throwing him in jail, you will create a homosexual, some kind of pervert. In American jails they have done a survey: thirty percent of the inmates are homosexuals. That is according to their confession; we don't know how many have not confessed. Thirty percent is not a small number. In monasteries the number is bigger – fifty percent, sixty percent. But the responsibility lies with our idiotic clinging to religions which are out of date, which are not supported and nourished by scientific research.

The new commune of man will be based on science, not on superstition. If somebody does something which is harmful to the commune as such, then his body has to be looked into; perhaps he needs some physiological change or biological change. His mind has to be looked into – perhaps he needs some psychoanalysis. The deepest possibility is that neither the body nor the mind are of much help; that means he needs a deep spiritual regeneration, a deep meditative cleansing.

Instead of courts, we should have meditative centers of different kinds, so every unique individual can find his own way.

Instead of law experts, who are simply irrelevant – they are parasites sucking our blood – we will have scientific people of different persuasions, because somebody may have a chemical defect, somebody may have a biological defect, somebody may have a physiological defect. We need all these kinds of experts, of all persuasions and schools of psychology, all types of meditators, and we can transform the poor people who have been victims of unknown forces – and have been punished by us. They have suffered in a double sense.

First, they are suffering from an unknown biological force. Secondly, they are suffering at the hands of your judges – who are nothing but butchers, henchmen – your advocates, all kinds of your law experts, your jailers. It is simply so insane that future human beings will not be able to believe it.

It is almost the same as in the past: mad people were beaten to cure their madness; people who were schizophrenic, who were thought to be possessed by ghosts, were beaten almost to death – this was thought to be the treatment. Millions of people have died because of your great treatments.

Now we can simply say that those people were barbarous, ignorant, primitive. The same will be said about us. I am already saying it: that your courts are barbarous, your laws are barbarous.

The very idea of punishment is unscientific.

There is nobody in the world who is a criminal; everybody is sick, and needs sympathy and a scientific cure, and most of your crimes will disappear.

But first private property has to disappear: private property creates thieves, dacoits, pickpockets, priests, politicians.

Politics is a disease.

Man has suffered from many diseases and he has not even been aware that they are diseases. He has been punishing small criminals and he has been worshipping great criminals. Who is Alexander the Great? A great criminal; he murdered people on a mass scale. Adolf Hitler alone killed millions of people, but he will be remembered in history as a great leader of men.

Napoleon Bonaparte, Ivan the Terrible, Nadirshah, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane are all mass-scale criminals. But their crimes are so big, that perhaps you cannot conceive.... They have killed millions of people, burned millions of people alive, but they are not thought of as criminals. And a small pickpocket, who takes away a one-dollar note from your pocket will be punished by the court.

Once private property disappears.... And in a commune there is going to be no private property, everything belongs to all; naturally, stealing will disappear. You don't steal water and accumulate it, you don't steal air. A commune has to create everything in such abundance that even a retarded person cannot think of accumulating it. What is the point? It is always available, fresh.

Money has to disappear from society.

A commune does not need money. Your needs should be fulfilled by the commune. All have to produce, and all have to make the commune richer, affluent, accepting the fact that a few people will be lazy. But there is no harm in it.

In every family you will find somebody lazy. Somebody is a poet, somebody is a painter, somebody simply goes on playing on his flute – but you love the person. A certain percentage of lazy people will be respectfully allowed. In fact a commune that does not have lazy people will be a little less rich than other communes which have a few lazy people who do nothing but meditate, who do nothing but go on playing on their guitar while others are toiling in the fields. A little more human outlook is needed; these people are not useless. They may not seem to be productive of commodities, but they are producing a certain joyful, cheerful atmosphere. Their contribution is meaningful and significant.

With the disappearance of money as a means of exchange, many crimes will disappear.

As religions disappear, with their repressive superstitions and moralities, crimes like rape, perversions like homosexuality, diseases like AIDS will become unheard of. And when from the very beginning every child is brought up with a reverence for life – reverence for the trees because they are alive, reverence for animals, reverence for birds – do you think such a child one day can be a murderer? It will be almost inconceivable.

And if life is joyous, full of songs and dances, do you think somebody will desire to commit suicide? Ninety percent of crimes will disappear automatically; only ten percent of crimes may remain, which are genetic, which need hospitalization – but not jails, prisons, not people to be sentenced to death. This is all so ugly, so inhuman, so insane.

The new commune, the new man, can live without any law, without any order. Love will be his law, understanding will be his order.

Science will be, in every difficult situation, his last resort.

The Golden Future ~ Osho

[Prabhaker]

FAMILIES ARE OUT OF DATE

NEW FORMS OF collectivities will have to come into being. I would not like to call them a "society," just to avoid the confusion between the words. I call the new collectivity a "commune." The word is significant. It means: where people are not only living together, but where people are in deep communion.

To live together is one thing – we are doing it. Every city, every town, thousands of people are living together – but what togetherness is there? People don't know even their neighbors. They live in the same skyscraper, thousands of people, and they never come to know that they are living in the same house. It is not togetherness, because there is no communion. It is simply a crowd, not a community. So I would like to replace the word "society" with the word "commune."

Society has existed on certain basic principles. You will have to remove them; otherwise the society will not disappear. The first and the most important unit of the society has been the family. If the family remains the way it is, then the society cannot disappear, then religions cannot disappear. Then we cannot create one world, one humanity.

The family is the root cause of millions of diseases; it is the basic brick that nations are made of, races are made of, religious organizations are made of.

And the family has destroyed the blissfulness of men and women of the whole of mankind.

Today in the West every third marriage ends in divorce with all the horrible legal battles over kids and possessions. A majority of all violent crimes and murders in the world happen within the family between family members.

The basic structure of the family is of possessiveness: the husband possesses the wife and they both possess the children; and the moment you possess a human being you have taken away his dignity, his freedom, his very humanity. You have taken away all that is beautiful and you have given him only handcuffs; perhaps made of gold – beautiful cages in place of his wings – but those golden cages cannot give him the sky and the freedom of the sky.

The family tries to disconnect you from the whole society, just as the nation divides you from other nations; it is the same strategy of division.

Once the family is gone, much of psychological disease will be gone; much of political insanity will be gone.

So the first thing is, a model commune will not have families.

The implication is clear: it will not have marriages.

Love, for the first time, should be given the respect that has been its due for centuries. Love should be the only law between two human beings. If they decide to live together, only joy should be their binding force. And remember, like everything real, love also changes. Only unreal things, plastic things, remain permanent.

Marriage is permanent, but it gains permanence by killing love.

It is on the grave of love that marriage makes its house. Naturally it brings only agony, anguish, suffering, slavery and a total destruction of man's spirituality.

A model commune will be a communion, a gathering of free spirits.

Children should belong to the commune, not to the parents. Parents have done enough harm; they cannot be allowed to corrupt their children anymore – although their intentions are all good. But what to do with their good intentions? The results are all ugly.

They teach their children to be competitive, and competition brings jealousy. They teach their children to become somebody in the world, to "make a name" for themselves. That makes life a struggle, not a rejoicing but a continuous fight – so destructive that it takes away all your joy, all your juice, all your flowers, leaving behind only skeletons fighting for power, for money, for position. Life becomes a battlefield.

The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as ambitious beings, they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving to their children as a heritage, their unfulfilled desires, their incomplete ambitions. This way diseases go on from one generation to another.

We have to protect children from the past.

The only way is for them to belong to a commune. Children should not live with their parents but in communal hostels so the parents cannot poison their minds. Parents can meet them and spend weekends with them, but basically they will grow independently. And the commune should take care that there is no question of any religious or political ideology or nationality, race, caste – all these things which divide. This is the only way to create a break with the past. It will help tremendously if children can see things in a different light.

And having one father and one mother is psychologically dangerous because if the child is a boy, he starts imitating the father; if the child is a girl, she starts imitating the mother – and great psychological problems arise.

Father and mother should recede, and uncles and aunts should take their place. There should be so many uncles and so many aunts...perhaps the mother should be the chief aunt and the father should be the chief uncle, but not more than that.

It is good that the family is disappearing.

If the children are in the hands of the commune – I have experimented with it and found it immensely successful – the children are far more happy, because they are far more free. No conditioning is stamped on them. They mature earlier, because nobody is trying to make them dependent, so they become independent. Nobody is trying to go out of their way to help them, so they have to learn how to help themselves. This brings maturity, clarity, a certain strength.

And with the family disappearing, nations will disappear, because the family is the unit of the nation.

So I am tremendously happy whenever I see the family disappearing, because I know behind it will go the nation. With it will go the so-called religions, because it is the family which imposes religion, nationality, and all kinds of things on you. Once the family is gone, who is going to force Christianity on you, Hinduism on you?

Right now everybody is forced to be according to the ideas of others.

That causes misery and great anguish, and takes all joy and gladness from life. Everybody should be himself and contribute to life according to his way, by creating music, or by creating paintings, or by writing poetry, or by producing better fruit, better crops, making better roads. Everyone should be allowed to have his own potential fulfilled.

A model commune will give dignity to every individual.

A model commune will create as much intelligence as possible, and will allow people to grow intelligently, to search and seek for their truth, because that is how one becomes more intelligent.

By searching and seeking, intelligence is sharpened like a sword.

Man has lived in unintelligence because all the religions of the world have emphasized only one thing: belief. And belief is poison to intelligence.

They have emphasized only one thing: faith. And faith is against all growth.

The new man I conceive will not have any belief system and will not have any faith.

He will be a seeker, a searcher, an enquirer; his life will be a life of tremendous discovery, discoveries in the outside world and discoveries in the inside too.

I want every human being to be a discoverer: a Galileo, a Copernicus, a Columbus in the outside world; and a Gautam Buddha, a Zarathustra, a Chuang Tzu in the inside world. My whole effort is concentrated on one thing: to create the new man as "Zorba the Buddha."

In a model commune everybody will have both qualities, the qualities of the Zorba and the qualities of the Buddha – tremendously interested in the outside world, and in the same way in love with the inner search. The day you are both together you have become the new man, and the new man is going to be the savior of humanity.

A commune should be a gathering of seekers, of lovers, of friends, of creative people in all dimensions of life. We can produce a paradise here, on the earth.

The Golden Future ~ Osho

[pluto]

On 7/2/2017 at 0:25 AM, Wyatt said:

Let's suppose that a whole country of people become enlightened and decided to completely change their culture to meet the needs of their now enlightened citizens, how would their government be structured? What would their political systems be like?

Holy What a question! hold on.. racking up all the Enlightened beings i can find to ask them if i could find any ahahah

Jokes side i was watching this video about a week ago and i think it could be something similar ?

All the best

[ajasatya]

@Wyatt check out what they're doing in butan.

[Spiral]

Well lets assume the adults are enlighten, because why would kids be?

I would guess some kind of relatively small authoritarian-capitalistic-democratic-meritocracy government with the focusing on enlightening the youth, while still remaining small to promote growth in the form of capitalism. Because in a state where everyone is enlighten, capitalism will work wonderfully as people are very focused on being ethical while not having to dealing with horrible government running institutions.  

When i say authoritarian i mean a government that prevents things like porn, gamling and alcohol from being consumed by the naive youth. Democracy would also work well as different people have different perspectives yet are all wise in this society. 

[nexusoflife]

@Wyatt I actually thought about this in a previous post. I applied it to a global scale.  Here is what I think it would be like. Let me know what you think. 

Enlightenment

In this world the overwhelming majority of people are enlightened. Culture and human behavior has changed drastically because of this. There is no human suffering in the world for the large part. People are not identified with the mind created ego. This is a world where humans view reality exactly as it is. There is no religion in this world because the population knows what God is and that all of existence is One. They do not carry dogmatic beliefs as they see how this can limit functionality in life. Society does not perpetuate the mind created sense of self. The population knows what true happiness is. People here are functionally effective in order to experience life to the fullest. They have no attachment or emotional investment to anything in life. People here are not concerned with an identity or attached to external circumstance thus they can more effectively and efficiently act in life without mental resistance and emotional chaos. All of their actions are done with zero mental resistance. They behave in a free flowing, spontaneous, healthy, loving and compassionate way. They live life through feeling and flowing with events not forcing and overthinking. They see existence is simply a menagerie of forms and is constantly changing like water.

Integral Understanding society and moral compass

In this world the overwhelming majority of people look at life from an integral perspective. People are able to look at situations from multiple perspectives. There is world peace. War no longer happens. There are no prisons only rehabilitation centers. Egoic competition is no longer viewed as positive and has largely disappeared. Cooperation has taken its place in the world on a global scale. This world has no enforced countries or boarders only different regions to make navigation and travel easier, humanity is one unit. People in this world are not materialistic and would be considered minimalists, but have a very high standard of living, much higher than what the richest person has today. People are intelligent enough and kind enough to only take what they need. There is a huge emphasis on happiness, exploration, fun and unity. People are nonjudgmental. People are compassionate and have a comprehensive understanding of how emotions work. Psychedelics are legal and are safely used as tools to explore the mind by people worldwide. Dreaming is studied to learn more about the subconscious mind. Meditation is commonplace in order to better calm and understand the mind. People in this world have a deep and understanding of human psychology that is far more advanced than what we have today.

Veganism

In this world the overwhelming majority of people are vegan. Because of this ecosystems have recovered. Forests are no longer cleared away for farmland. Ocean biodiversity has recovered as people no longer go fishing for food or sport. People no longer hunt for food or sport. The only people using animal products are hunter gatherer tribes. And even they have access to modern technologies at any time if they want to. Many diseases such as cancer heart disease and diabetes are extremely rare because people no longer eat animal products. Even if someone does get the mentioned diseases the level of medical knowledge and medical technologies is so high that they can be easily taken care of. Animals are no longer killed in the tens of billions because people no longer consume animal products. Additionally farm animals are no longer bred in the tens of billions because animal farming no longer exists. Many of the dog and cat breeds present today no longer exist because people no longer selectively breed animals for their own desires because many of the drawbacks of this are known. Animals are not used for entertainment. Breeding back programs have started in order to revive species that have gone extinct due to human activates. We no longer have zoos or aquariums, people do not have “pets” either, they have animal friends. Ecotourism has completely replaced zoos and aquariums in how people learn about biodiversity and ecology. Peaceful interactions between humans and many other species are commonplace.

Education

In this world every person has access to an education. School is free and entirely optional. All education is directly related to real world practicality. Knowledge is freely shared amongst all peoples as education is the best method of solving and preventing problems for the world. All people have access to an education that will teach them things that they want to learn and things that will help them in their lives. There are many more educational centers than in the 21st century and they are nothing like schools today. All subjects taught in school are what one chooses to learn. Schools are no longer places of conformity. Schools no longer force memorization and regurgitation. Education centers in this world actually teach important relevant and real world applicable information to everyone and anyone who is willing to learn. For example if someone wants to learn about physics they simply sign up and attend class, the same goes for all other subject areas. There is no standardized testing, or monotonous notetaking while sitting at a desk. All learning is interactive. Classes are conducted by active discussion and through experiencing the actual subject material in real world situations. One learns what they want in a way that will benefit their mental development instead of stunt it. This way of learning opens up many possibilities for people as far as what they can learn, the experiences they have and the people they meet because of it. There are research bases worldwide in all ecosystems of the earth. Even in areas such as underwater in space and underground. Areas such as geology, paleontology and astronomy are greatly explored. People in this world actively explore the bottom of the ocean, the interior of our planet and have discovered millions of species of extinct prehistoric organisms and have an accurate understanding of the history of our planet. This has been achieved largely through the usage of artificially intelligent robots.

Health Awareness

In this world the overwhelming majority of people have awareness of their health and listen to their bodies. Everyone eats the healthiest that they can and exercise on a regular basis. Medical technologies have advanced much more than today. More people play sports than ever before yet the societal focus on sports is smaller than today because people focus on things that are more important to global technological and cultural progress. Calisthenics parks are more commonplace. There is a huge amount of thought and responsibility taken into consideration when bringing a new human into the world. People do not have psychological problems because they are raised by parents who have not accumulated psychological traumas; babies are not born with birth defects or diseases because there is an extremely high level of responsibility, knowledge and health in this world.

Technological Progress

In this world the technological singularity has already occurred and we have supercomputers that are more intelligent than humans. Nearly all jobs that can be automated are automated. Thus humans are no longer required to work in most areas. Technology in every area has greatly advanced. Robots are commonplace and are helpers in society that make life easier for the vast majority of people. Several centrifugal Space stations are in orbit at various places around the earth. Humans have sent both robots and astronauts to all of the planets in the solar system. People can enjoy recreational trips to low earth orbit. Many of the planets and moons of the solar system have been visited and are at various levels of colonization. Bases and outposts on the surface and in orbit of planets have been created throughout the solar system.

Post Scarcity

Problems such as resource depletion, starvation and poverty have all been eliminated. Everyone has access to basic needs such as food, water and shelter. There are no homeless people. Money has become obsolete and no longer dictates people’s lives. People are not limited to the area where they were born due to monetary constraints. People are free to travel as they please. Because people do not live in a mindset of scarcity and are aware of their environment and the way that resources are used and allocated, it facilitates abundance for all people.

Sexual Maturity

In this world people are sexually mature. Nudity is not seen as obscene. Women are no longer associated with sex. Sex is used for procreation and fun and is never used for exploitation. Gender roles are no longer existent. In this world there are no rapes, body image problems or pornography. People are not disturbed by nudity or obsessed with any particular body parts. People are allowed to be freely nude wherever they please. The human body is seen for what it is, a biological machine. Because education is widespread there are no sexual insecurities or sexual immaturity. All of society is sexually open and mature. People are not socially labeled as gay, straight, bisexual, monogamous, polygamous, or polyamorous people. There is only love and different ways of expressing it.

Sustainability

The overwhelming majority of people in this world have environmental awareness and know how their actions affect the biosphere. All technologies used are sustainable. The world runs exclusively on renewable sources of energy to meet its needs. All goods are recycled and reused. Society exists in a symbiotic relationship with earth’s ecosystems. All vehicles run on renewable sources of energy such as electric or hydrogen. The vast majority of cars and other land vehicles are self-driving and electric. Cities and residential areas are powered by wind, solar, tidal, hydroelectric and geothermal energies. Trash does not exist. All unwanted materials are either recycled into other products or are composted and used in agriculture or other areas. There are no landfills. This is a zero waste civilization. Overpopulation is no longer an issue and the human population has dropped and stabilized to around two billion people. Animal populations are healthy and there are no endangered species caused by human actions.

Resource based economy

Money no longer exists in this world. People no longer have to go to work in order to make money. In this world people spend their lives doing things that they like because they want to do it. Because money is no longer a limiting factor, the moral compass of humanity has grown and many areas of society have grown exponentially in technological development and overall efficiency and effectiveness.

Self Governance

There are no centralized governments in this world people are intelligent enough to govern themselves. Additionally much of the calculations and logistics are done by computer power anyway. Society works as a unit to accomplish its goals. If an area of society needs to be improved all of society comes together to help to solve the issue. Each person contributes varying amounts to the solution of the situation. People do not have a mentality of separation from world affairs. If an earthquake occurs in one region of the world, people from all over the planet would gladly come and help the situation.

It’s not perfect

This is not a utopia in the traditional sense that every external circumstance is perfect all the time and everything always goes the way we want them to. People in this world are enlightened and thus perceive all of existence as perfect because they have no mental resistance to reality. However there is still pain in this world but there is no suffering. Suffering is mind created and the result of resistance to external circumstances while pain is simply intense signals crated by ones nervous system and sent to the brain. Natural Disasters still occur however advanced weather systems alert people well in advance of when they are coming and there are no obstacles to getting them to safety. Accidents still happen, bad weather still happens and crazy random events still happen. People still die every day however it is far less due to world peace, higher average intelligence and better overall average health of the population. This is simply my idealistic vision for a world in which humans live at their full potential and are always reaching upward.