The Devil's Guide To Ethics

The Jetsons question

Philosophical question: Do you ever think that we are not living in the future we envisioned not because we are incapable of building that future, but we as humanity have not proven to be competent enough with what we have to progress into a real future as society. We don't have flying cars because with normal cars we are killing thousands a day. We aren't immersed with aliens because we can't accept diversity within humanity, how are we expected to accept a completely different species? Quality of life hasn't been improved by technology because science knows that any major development would just be horded by those with power or snuffed out before it goes public. We need to look at the reality that humanity as a whole has not proven themselves worthy of the futuristic society we thought we could live in. There's a reason why the most innovative thing we're given is a digital frontier that keeps most of society stagnant. There's a reason why the most innovative things society is coming up with are innovations to the digital frontier. Humanity has failed to create that future. 2010 was supposed to be the future. But science fiction is fantasizing these developments that just grow further away. These things could exist but even in the stories we create, we see that humanity brings its chaos into the futuristic hypothetical. Conceptually we create these simulations of universal scale threats and humanity is completely thrilled by these ideas. We have full fun bases to these inhuman like forces saving humanity but the few "heroes" that are human in these hypotheticals are people who are rich or have access to money/ resources. The stories of underdogs are all about how they get some superpower by some random means but they do very little on a universal scale as just a human. If we as humans cannot be mindful of our value on that universal scale, why would we be included in it? Its like a job interview "what do you bring to the table?"

Humanity: "we destroy our bodies every day working jobs that don't really impact the world or humanity in a positive way; the choices and dispositions of individual identity become political discussions on a systematic level rather than just accepting one another and working on things that could actually build on society; we as individuals in society have become more aware on the planet we live on trying to make it better on a small scale... we've done work on the smaller levels but no big innovative solutions have been made around the impacts to our world made my big industries... rather than trying to find alternatives to these very foundations of our society, we carelessly consume and buy into these necessities without challenge because we are not given much of a choice. On the grand scale, the people on the bottom can't do s**t beyond being mindful and spreading awareness... it comes down to the rich being willing to put down their silver spoons and start investing in some actual solutions rather than politically appeasing the masses; we don't inherently choose our own leaders in the society we live in. What i mean by this is that the leaders of our society are completely based on the products we choose to buy and what goes into them. But rather than changing the simple choice of an every day purchase we will either buy with 1 of 3 factors:

1. We buy what is cheapest because we want to save money

2. We buy what we are most familiar with

3. We buy what is said to be of the greatest quality

Whenever there is a 4th option we not aware of it. The big scale that makes an effort to make that difference is often swept under the rug. But can we as humans justify these purchases if they challenge one or all of these ideas behind our purchases? Let's say there's products that intentionally don't use petroleum or high frutose corn syrup. Do we understand the real benefits of these purchases? Going on a frutose free diet means that your cravings will become more around what your body actually needs. You will be less hungry because the products you are consuming actually give you nourishment rather than making you more hungry. You'll find you have less health risks buying petroleum free products. They're few and far between because when you take a look, its in so many things. Beyond the machines that run and mass produce everything we have in this world today and consume excessively without second thought, its in the products themselves. Its in the pill capsules we take in our medication. Its in the toys we buy for our children. Its in the plastic cards we use until we run ourselves into debt and need a new one. Think about this, every bit of plastic that we buy on any level is composed with not only crude oil but with Coal and natural gas. The trifecta of what is destroying the world we live in. Though we may have become mindful as a society of plastic, they are still unnecessarily put into products that we don't even think about. This is how big businesses blitz people into buying into their leadership. Whether we like it or not, money leads us. How we use that will buy into the future of not only our individual wellbeing but the wellbeing of the world. But we focus on those 3 things making us no different than the people we're buying into. We live for comfort and cling to it. Rather than exploring change and possibility, we stick with what we know. We keep ourselves ignorant with excuses like "i don't have the time", "i don't have the means", "but this is better". "Better" is subjective. Better for you and your individual comfort or better for a choice that you could make. Something that may become contagious to your friends who come over and see what you bought. Experience these products first hand and ask themselves how it can fit in their lives."

What would the universe as a whole think of all humanities failures? They wouldn't judge us as a species as inherently bad, but it is clear that we all are choosing ignorance so there's little justification for keeping us ignorant. We keep this cycle going deteriorating our world and ourselves but never knowing or aspiring to do differently on a systematic level. We have made our bed in the universe. We could lay in it or we could wake up from this fever dream. How can we be a part of the future if we cannot act in the present? How can we be a part of the universe if we cannot be a part of our own world?