Why Society Is Not Better

By Leo Gura - July 11, 2026

It order to have an exceptionally developed society, we must have hundreds of millions of exceptionally developed citizens, which is basically impossible. Being exceptional does not scale. Being amazing does no scale. Being Good does not scale. Being Conscious does not scale. The only reason society is not amazing is because the majority of its members are not amazing. How can society be amazing when most people are sloppy, lazy, irresponsible, uneducated, unconscious, selfish, corrupt, survival zombies? An amazing society cannot be magically created through gimmickry or shortcut. An amazing society requires deeply educating and training hundreds of millions of amazing people. But not as conformist zombies and government loyalists, but as fully autonomous minds. That is why we don’t have a great government. There is no free lunch. You cannot have a great government when most of its citizenry is not great individually.

The true function of government is to help create and foster great individuals at massive scale. That’s the actual problem every government is struggling and failing to solve. Great individuals cannot be created through a mechanical, unconscious, factory-farm process. The more mechanical that process gets, the more it scales, but the less greatness it produces. Greatness is not mechanical, it is sentient, it is Spirit. There is no greatness without Spirit. Spirit cannot be cultivated in a factory. A factory is a spiritual slaughterhouse. That’s why you don’t find much Spirit in school, universities, corporations, the military, and bureaucracy. The highest collective challenge for mankind is inventing ways of scaling Spirit. That’s the real developmental challenge.

How do we scale Spirit without crushing it? That’s what our greatest minds should be working on. That’s where our resources should be invested, not in datacenters. But instead the greatest minds are trapped in inventing a mechanical hell because science told them that Spirit is “unscientific”.

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