The only purpose we can have that makes sense to me is to evolve an interesting destiny. That means a material destiny, a mental destiny, and yes, a spiritual destiny.

At present we seem, as a species, to have totallyy fucked up the first and third, and only managed to cvultivate a few small corners where the mental side seems to be making some sort of progress in spite of heavy counter efforts in other corners.

It wuld an interestin exercise, I think, to imagine an ideal scene physically for the whole planet including those living on it. Then, to envision an intellectual destiny worth pursuing--if we had the freedom to work out any problems, or intellectual frameworks, where should we go with that freedom?

And finally to figure out what a genuine spiritual destiny, uncluttered by arbitrary figments or authoritarian overlays, would be like.

Somewhere in the process would evolve the remedy for the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual causes of stupidity and neurosis.

I think this makes a very interesting road map, if it could ever build up a consensus.


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