How to make the world a better place, your suggestions

[Zangetshumody]

ends are dead without means...

Sanitizing the political and by extension the executive of influence from corporations and multinationals. This can be achieved by having the state sponsor television debates that are made available online while simultaneously banning all other forms of campaigning, internet political journalism will probably take off and the best candidates would rise or be slated pretty fast.

The introduction of long term issues into the public discourse, this is by its very nature a weakness in democracy, who would adopt a two child policy in the west, but population control has to come into the picture and should be made law to secure its even application. It might be best to create or convene a temporary elected body taken from the judiciary whose soul mandate is to safeguard and maintain the environment and the people who live off it. This body could entertain competing bills formed from guest speaking technocrats in order to achieve and maintain the best outcomes utilizing the latest technology can offer in aid of the cause being entertained.

This kind of set-up can give the politicians a way around making the harsh decisions that will alienate them from their constituents, ironically they are really the most important political questions one can have considered, and it is a crying shame they have not been tackled sooner by the real politicians.

We only really have one planet, and at the rate we are consuming, there is gonna be less and less left to live in the time it takes before we come to our senses. But our senses are blind, because the media is owned by corporations. Imagine an animal, dull the senses and you increase your potential of being non-responsive to dangers. The media needs reform so that not only is it not government controlled its not corporation influenced either. I think one should just ban television news channels (apart from the local state run news) and see internet journalism blossom, from the wilderness will emerge credible news coverage and reputable sources of information thats more relevant, television is designed to control the masses- which is why it can probably never get banned, until radical campaign reform is installed. If you want news you have to go online and make choices about who you get your news from, the whole spectrum still exists online, only forcing the viewer to discern between more choices, the better of whom will be better publicized. This free market of information can only be in the interest of society when the alternative is corporate sponsored news sucking in mindless hordes.

Voucher system for schools to promote private schools with better standards.

Well thats all I can think of at the moment...

also becoming a 10 in my Enneagram model, I hope the books will sell ._.
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[AntiZang]

Brilliant. Finally my evil twin is talking some sense.

 

[Zangetshumody]

They are going to ban you, thinking that you are a troll...

 

[Thalassa]

Form entirely new societies based upon scientific logic and love/respect for fellow humans rather than by ancient traditions.

 

[AntiZang]

Well, I will interject a bit of content into my posts then. This all makes sense; the world has not reached the level of admitting it has a problem yet though, overpopulation is like our world with a drinking problem, as long as we are somewhat functional, the general population will deny its a pressing matter We have to let the world bottom out, reach a new low then is the only time people will act.

 

[Zangetshumody]

If we cannot rally before the bust, then we are not fit to call ourselves evolved, and we deserve our demise.

 

[esidebill]

Improve the fat youths diet so we don't die of genetics.

 

[Mole]

Oz is the way.

We could do worse than taking Oz as a role model.

For Oz is not only the sixth most affluent country in the world but is also the sixth, oldest, continuous democracy.

Oz settled one whole Continent and half of another without killing anyone.

And Oz gained her independence without a violent revolution and united six sovereign States without a violent civil war.

Oz was a founding member of the United Nations and one of the first leaders. And Oz helped write the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

And Oz is also is a migrant society and a peaceful multicultural society.

Oz is a model, modern society based on the Scottish and English Enlightenment.

Oz is the way to go.

 

[Perch420]

Eugenics, capital punishment for all violent offenses, a one world authoritarian state, and legalizing weed.

 

[Thalassa]

Upping Perch's thorazine.

 

[CrystalViolet]

Down with the corporations! And corrupt governments!
And rampant capitalism.
Personally I'm waiting for the Zombie Apocolyspe, I reckon that will clear out a few problems, and then survivors can then restructure society in a way that would be impossible now, unless all the little people started a mass riot across the world, but that's not going to happen because the little people still think they are little and individual.

Oh and no fluoride in the water. Yes, I believe the conspiracy theories. Good for teeth, nuh uh. Dentists are good for teeth. Keeping every one passive and indolent, Win! (I'm not crazee, honest ).

 

[Perch420]

:rolli:

 

[Perch420]

@ Crystalviolet

 

[Savage Idealist]

Extending my list of morals (ones that mostly focus on people being compassionate for all, social libertarianism, etc.) as the common morals that make up the foundation of society, thus bringing the individual beings of the world closer together and in harmony with each other. Either that, or me being philosopher king of the world with all the masses under my power.

Form entirely new societies based upon scientific logic and love/respect for fellow humans rather than by ancient traditions.

This is the truth, this is what the world needs. Since you seem to share my vision for a better world, when I take over it as philosopher king I'll let you rule by my side.

Eugenics, capital punishment for all violent offenses, a one world authoritarian state,

No, just no.

and legalizing weed.

Yes, yes, yes. It sickens me that pot smoker, who are otherwise mostly harmless people, are being unjustly thrown in jails. They should not have to suffer the horrors of prison and giving them freedom will help to make the world better. Also, more people in this world seriously need to get stoned.

 

[Lark]

Eugenics, capital punishment for all violent offenses, a one world authoritarian state, and legalizing weed.

Its so bizarre to see all those recommendations in a single sentence.

You know the brain damage from smoking weed might mean you eventually qualify for either of the other two recommendations you begin with. Which would be ironic.

 

[Lark]

I used to believe in dozens of wild schemes for restructuring the economy, took an interest in both the socialist and uncapitalist (libertarian but unlikely to be a straight forward kick back to the rich and corporations reforms) idea but I'm much less enthused by them than I once was and have begun to think that the relative prosperity of a money circulating mixed economy achieves most of the goals of relative safety and prosperity while not being injurious enough to threat collapse of the most basic enduring, organic social institutions.

Nowadays I think in personal and cultural terms more than I do structural terms, I'd like to see a move from the "me" culture or a "we" culture, not a neurotic self-sacrificing one because this would be a false dawn and only really the reinvention of a "me" culture with submissive and domineering "me" individuals, but a genuine growth of mutualism and reciprocal obligations in the place of rights, entitlements and unreal expectations.

Part of this paradigm shift I think would have to involve less anti-social behaviour, less of the mentality which values the suppression of feeling and expression of hard heartedness and casualises cruelty, with much more cognizance of whether or not how you behave is likely to prove threatening to others. I'd like to see conviviality, social conscience and courtesy make a come back.

The agents of this kind of change I dont expect to be governments or legislation, its only really something which can be achieved by individuals and small groups, building to something but I dont exactly know what, perhaps sharing their own resources to try and circulate their message and get people together to discuss it and disseminate it if they agree.

My own ideals or hoped for reality when it comes to utopias these days are something like a garden state or the pictorial or literary ideals of the philosophers like Socrates and Plato meeting and dialoging. Something like an internet forum but in person, were you share each others time, company, opinions, without any fighting breaking out or any kind of expense, like having to buy food or drink or something just to be gathered together. In my best case scenario this either results in the limiting or rolling back of the sorts of social fragmentation and identity politics which I believe feed the "me" culture, eclipses consumerism as the dominant pass time and replaces the sorts of abstraction which I think makes for a lot of hostility in debates in most contexts.

 

[Perch420]

Its so bizarre to see all those recommendations in a single sentence.

You know the brain damage from smoking weed might mean you eventually qualify for either of the other two recommendations you begin with. Which would be ironic.

You are totally uneducated about the topic. Not one reputable study has shown any link between smoking marijuana and brain damage. In the information age, such ignorance is inexcusable and would warrant the death penalty in my hypothetical world state.

 

[Frederico Rogeiro]

It would be great to the world that some alien enemy could unite us and stop our wars. But then, we would be in war against him, and that could be even worse.
Anyway, that's just an imaginary example of how difficult it can be to find common interests... but still, I think it's important to find them.

 

[lowtech redneck]

First, kill all lawyers. (ducks rotton tomatos thrown for uttering such a cliche).

 

[Sparrow]

Replace capitalism with a barter system, and be more in touch with the earth like the the Native Americans were. Oh and have very strict rules, example: if you steal your arm gets chopped off.