The Progress of Civilization

Humans have advanced in their ability to more easily produce their nutritional needs and wants, and overcome the maladies that shorten their lifespan. This has allowed individuals to gain greater wisdom from experience as they age, and their societies as the generations and eras pass. They gain a better understanding of the functions of nature, and can predict the winds and the weather. As the ages passed humans designed mechanical, electrical, and even radio-active gadgets to aid them in providing for their needs and enjoyment, and in competing with other societies and nations for possession and control of the planet's resources.

Our scientific investigations have determined that our species has evolved physically and mentally over a great length of time, and that our civilization has evolved to its present predicament by following ancient spiritual instructions and philosophy. Such instructions led human societies and nations to double and redouble their populations as opportunities provided, and which allowed them to compete successfully with their rivals. This has allowed population densities to increase to the extent that our exploitation of the planet's resources has led to the contamination of its soils and waters, and our massive use of the planet's coals and petroleum resources has led to global warming, which has altered the planet's weather patterns.

Our divided societies have always competed (as have other species) for control and possession of the limited territories of the earth. Each successful ethnic group or nation has followed spiritual beliefs that provided them with the instructions to populate the earth, and the survival-values that allowed the faithful to overrun the territories of those that didn't follow such instructions. These beliefs additionally came to provide a society with domestic values, or commandments, that allowed people to live more harmoniously with their neighbors while advancing their technical abilities to support their increasing numbers. As a result; societies that adhered to such advantageous beliefs have populated the earth to the exclusion to all others, and such highly subsidized teachings repudiate the findings of our modern scientific investigations: cause most to believe that only God can prevent the final Armageddon that the biblical writers have foreseen, or the global deterioration that progresses as our populations double, and our use of the planet's resources increase. We can now see where these ancient beliefs and philosophies have led us, so we must us our advancing wisdom and abilities to guide our civilization toward desirable objectives.

Many of us have come to understand that it is the powers of nature rather than spooks in the sky that drives all species to compete for survival, and realize that we must devise ways to overcome the need to compete for the earthly resources that sustain our livelihood. We now have the transportation and communication technology to govern the planet with a single administration, and could prevent the costs and sorrows of war by uniting the nations. Then we would no longer need large populations to supply us with plentiful cannon fodder, or the modern technical weaponry to defeat each other with. By eliminating the need for trade and immigration restrictions we could save still more. By offering such huge savings to the public we should, in effect, be able to bribe the masses into abandoning their attempts to gain legislated advantages over each other. By so doing, we could additionally save the enormous expense of holding periodic elections, and the high salaries and perks of the representatives that gain their support through providing the majorities with legislation that economically appeases them: ridding ourselves of the scoundrels that lead us to commit such atrocities upon each other.

Without politicians and governmental programs for the unemployable, we would have to revert back to the times where family groups cared for their own invalids and elders, and with the tax money retained, could again provide assistance or disability insurance for the truly needy. This would prevent the present welfare scams, and second generations that become accustomed to living on the dole: for relatives wouldn't continue to slave for those that were inconsiderate of them. People should be more concerned with the able bodied, and strive to prevent further deterioration of the planet's life supporting environment. As well we must use our advancing intelligence to overcome our need to compete, rather than by using our animalistic instincts to compete to the best of our ability. Avoiding remaining our own worst enemy, and providing ourselves with an environment where we are able to respect each others equality through taking the initiative to use our advancing wisdom and abilities to guide our civilization to its highest potential for all time. However, don't vote for me, I'm only trying to tell you how you should run the whole shebang. It is you that must learn to lead yourselves: rather than be led to an untimely end, like a herd of sheep. Probably we should arrange to have weekly gatherings and use modern communication devises as we do in the present, to convert us from our present national, political, and religious conflictions, to bring us to the bountifulness that a species that is one of mind and purpose can provide for itself.