I believe there are important philosophies and engineering potentials that are being ignored throughout our history and concerning our future.

I am never sure what the objective is of our country thanks to an infinite source of conspiracy theories and obvious historical evidence.  It is easy to recognize that some of our cities and states are more Progressive, and many are more conservative.  I believe many of these conservative views are based on ignorance, fear, and a bastardized version of Christian beliefs.  But also on the opposite end, the more Progressive may be somewhat unrealistic and dreamy.

There are many Societies in other countries who have many of our problems figured out, and it seems to me that we have no interest in doing things like other countries for the sole purpose that “we are America”, whereas simplified as that statement is, I believe it to be true.  It simply means that we want to be the most powerful, which we have been since the Industrial Revolution, as far as war machines go.  I believe it’s time to step into the future and let go of our historical nonsense.  There are clear statistics of certain philosophies, engineering potentials, and social constructs that have proven to work better than ours here in “the good ol’ U.S. of A.”.

I believe we need to take a hint from these small cities who are trying to make an impact on poverty such as Stockton California’s seed program.

We also need to invest more time informing and educating our government officials and our youth on things like:

~Origin of race (i.e. Spencer Wells’s genographic study) which could clear up a lot of racial issues in the world.

•Buckminster Fuller’s philosophies on “converting the high technology from from Weaponry to livingry”.

•Paul Stamets’s six ways mushrooms can save the world.

•Jacque Fresco’s futurist engineering plans and economic solutions introduced by the Venus Project.

•Frederick Nietzsche’s views in ‘Beyond Good and Evil’.

•Origin of religion (getting to the source of where are bastardized religions came from before the 66 “original” books).

These are a few very important concepts to understand that I do not understand why it’s so hard to accept.  We need to stop creating taboos against things like:

•Mushrooms (because of fear of our children using them to hallucinate, which is proven to assist in the connection of parts of the brain that provide a positive outlook on life to those who otherwise may become suicidal).  Apart from the hundreds of thousands of strains, many of which are very healthy gourmet mushrooms that help heal many elements and can help us solve many world problems.

•Philosophies like Frederick Nietzsche’s Beyond good and evil (which has a negative connotation tied to his name thanks to a certain Nazi figure who happened to appreciate Nietzsche’s genius and utilize it in a horrific manner, yet provides an interesting outlook on human behavior and a better understanding of why we do the things we do).

•Engineering brilliance, utilizing the technologies we use (and pay trillions for) in war, instead, to better our civilization (out of fear that the common people who can access this technology might use it in a similar fashion as our country’s leaders use it against other countries to steal resources that we don’t need; we just want because we want to claim the world). People also often fear Orwellian propaganda; if cameras were everywhere, they are for persecuting murderers, child abductors, and terrorists, not catching you doing drugs or masturbating on the bus.  In Jacque Fresco’s world, I believe drugs are legal or decriminalized, which has been proven to have a positive outcome in many other countries.

Our fears and ignorance are getting the best of us, and we soon will not be the most powerful country in the world.  If you want to do something about that, we need to better ourselves in a manner that will eventually assist other countries across the world to better themselves.

I believe now that we have past the point where we don’t need to destroy the Earth to create modern conveniences that could help everybody in the world live an easier, simpler lifestyle, that more cultures who are against our way of life might be more accepting of these high technologies if they do not negatively effect the Earth or their communities.  Whereas some of the fears are legitimate concerns, we cannot retard progression and not take risks because of them.  It’s not like we are preventing psychotic behavior and mass murderers on a daily basis the way it is now.

Joshua Corkill

Austin