Q: I don’t want to point to nothing but “what’s wrong,” though. I want to talk about how easy it can be for us to change things with one simple up-shift in our collective consciousness.
Yet you can’t “change things” unless you know what it is you want to change. So some discussion of what’s not going well can be very useful, allowing humanity to know where it may wish to make some improvements.
Q: Yes. But I can see apologists lining up right now to say, “Wait just a minute! We’ve made huge progress!” They will say we have to look at how far humanity has advanced. And they will be accurate in asserting that things are not as bad as they used to be.
Q: I would say, “Yes, but is that it? Is that the most we can say about our global experience? “Things are not as bad as they used to be!” Can we not at least also say that our species has finally become civilized?