Dealing With Ourselves

IN A MORE PERFECT WORLD, food, medical care, energy, and transportation would be free or very inexpensive, a money economy would persist only for the production and distribution of luxury goods. In a more perfect world, not only would Iran not have nuclear weapons, nobody else would either. Let us remember that the purpose of advancing technology is to make life easier for humans, not more difficult. Lest we forget Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law: "All sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". The technology of the future could very well give free food and energy to everyone, if we can use it properly. All technology ever developed has been abused, by somebody. Human technology is advancing by leaps and bounds, but human emotions are the same as they were tens of thousands of years ago, and human moral philosophy is no more advanced now than it was in the time of Jesus. You wouldn't want the people in Biblical times, or their remote ancestors, to have atomic bombs. And you wouldn't want us to have them either, if you know what's good for you. The politicians, chosen by the corporate military elite in America, and the most devout religious political tyrants in Iran, are barely able to even get started on agreeing on limits to atomic bombs. Anybody make an atomic bomb. The problem is to obtain the heavy metal. There's a lot of that around, however. The only real answer is for everyone, including and especially the United States, to get rid of all atomic bombs. Then, we could call in the aliens, or the U.N. to verify the whole planet. Most all of the seven billion teeming masses of humans around the world would most likely agree to this. We the teeming masses must force our elite leaders to act.