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Final Message
Let me strive to be as truthful as I can, regarding what I have seen. I have
seen the salvation of humanity through collective self-control. But I honestly
do not see destruction. Without the collective self-control, we will still
survive, but the state of our existence will be pathetic. Taking into account
the general order and nature by which the earth and its societies operate, we
will increase in quantity and decrease in quality, progress having reached its
saturation. I see superficiality and lack of reasons for living creeping in. No
psychological justification or remedy will work to contain it, for its duplicity
will be evident to all. Mankind will live more and more like a pack of animals.
Mankind will lose self-respect, originality, compassion, and all forms of
sensibility. No action will stand the test of genuineness, sincerity or
whole-heartedness. I am afraid of nuclear wars wiping out chunks of humanity,
but I am even more afraid that future humans will be a poverty-ridden race with
zero self esteem and sense of dignity.
I do not feel proud of any achievement in science or towards progress because I
feel that a greater need is crying for attention. The need for someone to notice
how superficial and meaningless our lives have become and how much less worth
the average human has. Progress reaches a few. He or she has zero choice in his
or her life in almost any matter. I know that most humans today think that they
have a high degree of choice compared to yesteryears. But with time, the
realization sets upon them that choice in one matter comes at the price of
choice in a whole lot of other matters. They end up more frustrated than they
thought they would otherwise be. The Nobel laureate, Wangari Maathai, says, if we
destroy our natural resources, it becomes scarce and we fight over it. But why
does the need to destroy natural resources arise? Because of overpopulation,
i.e., more births than can be sustained by existing resources, natural or
otherwise. If people are born without money, nations will have to over-use
natural resources to sustain their lives. To provide for those who don’t have
money, we will first look to natural resources that are the cheapest. We will
look to coal because it is the cheapest, though it is the most polluting. We
look for the cheapest because of the lack of money. We will not be able to be
environmentally friendly because presently being environmentally friendly is
costly.
If the PFC law is not enforced immediately in all countries, we will pollute and
imbalance the earth till extremely cheap environmentally friendly technologies
are discovered. If we fail in discovering such technologies, we will pollute
till we destroy the earth and ourselves. Why do people die of diseases that can
be cured? They cannot afford the price tags on the medicines required to cure
them. Medicines are costly. The most valuable medicines, the ones that can save
lives are often the costly ones. We may finally find cheaper alternatives, but
till we find such cheap alternatives, people will die of curable diseases. Will
people who don’t have money for food and shelter be able to buy a medicine if
afflicted by a deadly disease? Improper sanitation due to lack of money would
increase their possibility of contracting deadly diseases. Would education on
how to prevent diseases be of much use to the person who cannot afford to
implement the measures to protect him from the disease? If the PFC law is not
enforced immediately in all countries, people will continue to die of curable
diseases till cheap medicines for all deadly diseases are discovered. If we fail
in discovering such medicines, then people will continue to die helplessly of
curable diseases.
There is no meaning anymore in achieving progress or finding cures for diseases
if the majority of humanity cannot reach it. There is sense only in preventing
life that cannot be sustained, consequently ensuring that the fruits of progress
reach all. Requiring basic financial capability to become a parent will ensure
that majority of newborns are financially secure, that is, that they can buy
medicines in the case of an emergency, live in sanitary conditions, are less
likely to go hungry and shelter less, would have access to better quality
education and information and above all would not have a great need to use
resources and technologies that are polluting. Not every parent could be brought
to honor the requirement of the PFC law. No law has ever been completely obeyed.
Yet, on the whole, this approach would be much more efficient and effective than
trying family planning on one hand, which is not acceptable to many major
religions and cultures, enforcing environmentally friendly practices on the
other hand, which the majority of us wouldn’t be able to afford, besides
spending millions on feeding, educating and sheltering the poor and ignorant.
If the PFC law is enforced immediately, taxes will become unnecessary as the
proportion of poor will decrease in a few years time and the government will not
have to provide cheap transport, subsidized goods, free education and free
healthcare. Money saved in this manner can be used for:
Maintaining Justice and public order;
Modernizing Infrastructure (roads, railways, etc.);
Improving Military system.
The first public expenditure of ensuring justice and public order would help in
enforcing even more the PFC law. Even if not everyone honors the PFC law
requirement, the descendents of those who do would slowly but surely be out of
poverty. This would reduce the need for the government to provide free shelter,
food and education for them. The money saved in this manner could be used to
enforce the PFC law even more. This would ensure that more people are above the
poverty line, which would save even more money for the government, which could
be used again to enforce the PFC law. Tax burden will decrease. Inequitable tax
systems like income tax will become uncalled-for. The second public expenditure
of Modernizing Infrastructure would help the nation progress as a whole and in
aiding research. Better infrastructure would encourage foreign investment, which
would create more jobs and generate better salaries through competition. This
would further reduce the need to provide free/subsidized food, shelter and
education, which would again reduce the need for taxes. The third public
expenditure of maintaining and upgrading the military system would ensure better
security for the nation, reducing possibility of wars. In today’s world, wars
happen when there is a huge difference in the military capability between two
nations. Since government money is saved when there are fewer poor people, the
need for taxing the people to fund wars is reduced, too. As the proportion of
the poor decrease, the proportion of those who can afford environmentally
friendly resources and technologies will increase. Hence, there will be less
pollution. We can then live in harmony with nature. This would reduce the number
and magnitude of floods, famines, droughts and earthquakes. We can then continue
our progress without causing a threat to our own survival.
After knowing what must be done, if we still hesitate, we simply deserve to face
the consequences. We will be wiped off the face of the earth and a superior type
of species that thinks and acts better will replace us. What we should aim for,
is this. The ability to treat every individual equally, regardless of color,
cast, education, financial status, etc. If we are unable to do that, then we are
a socially undeveloped group, no matter what our educational qualifications are.
That is what our education should have prepared us for. What value has dignity
in poverty? It does have value in prosperity. In a poor country, does a rich
man’s sense of dignity make sense? Can he feel dignified as long as poor people
live all around him, striving for a living and having their basic rights
constantly denied? Of course not. Yet that is the hypocrisy in which most rich
people live, looking the other way, living rich lives, but without dignity. That
hypocrisy is going to be our doom. Our inability to contain our growth as a
species in a manner commensurate to the resources on the planet and a manner in
which rights of people can be safely secured is our only inability. It is the
inability from which all our shortcomings including our doom is coming. Our
priorities are wrong. The priority should not be elimination of the innumerable
shortcomings but the elimination of our inability to prevent those shortcomings
through new thinking and a new solution. Finally, there is but one question: DO
I CARE ENOUGH? Is my priority my own pride and laziness or is it a
responsibility to ensure our harmonious survival on this planet? If you do care,
do your bit. You may or may not accomplish anything but at least you wont be
feeling as guilty as those who were too proud to follow a path of
sustainability, on doomsday.
The day will come when people are killed before our eyes and we don’t feel
anything at all; we will just look the other way and act as though nothing has
happened. Today, people die due to hunger and mistreatment right across the
street and we live as though nothing has happened, busy with our own lives. How
long will it take for those people to be killed right in front of our eyes and
for us to act the same? How long will it take for the person killed across the
street to be yourself instead of someone else? It is our kindness and
sensitivity to suffering that has made us a great race, not brutality and
indifference, which is the way of animals. But slowly we are changing over to
the ways of animals; we regard those ways as superior and consider worthless the
softer side of mankind. And why? We have become like an oversized pack of
animals; gnawing and biting at each other because we are choking each other with
our basic needs. Your basic needs of food, water and shelter stands in the way
of my basic needs being met. So, I want to kill you. It’s a natural instinct. We
are not perfect people; we use our animal instincts as much as we use our
brains.
Why is it important for children to have more choice in their lives? It’s
because they are the ones who have the least choice. And what good will it be to
the world if the world decides to give them more choice? There would be more
satisfied people in the world and if that’s not true, at least there would be
less unfairness in the world. And that would slowly bring about a perfect world
where everyone is treated fairly. If we want a world where everyone is treated
fairly, shouldn't we first ensure that children are not treated unfairly?
Campaigning for fair treatment for adults is not of any use because unfair
treatment is being meted out at the childhood stage at that very moment to
children, who will have that debt of fairness that he or she rightfully deserves
to be repaid, for as long as it takes society to repay. The fact that the debt
incurred when he was a child does not cease to make unfair treatment a debt that
society must repay and clear off. We shouldn’t let the unfair treatments remain
and gather interest from childhood. Unfair treatment should not happen at
childhood because that sort of treatment would hamper a person’s growth. The
longer it takes society to make up for its unfair treatment of an individual,
the more society will have to pay him back to make up for all his losses
incurred due to society’s unfair treatment when he was a child. If society does
not pay him back for that unfairness met out to him when he was a child in a
reasonable span of time, the person might take it by force from society or even
write it off. Religion encourages people to write it off. It will work for a
while, but people cannot be fooled all the time. If they want justice, they will
demand it from society. They will stop writing off the debts. Unfair treatment
should not have happened in the first place.
The value of a human being ought to be upheld by law, above everything else. To
protect, serve and maintain human societies and their individuals is the purpose
of law, which it is failing in because it has not upheld the value of a human
being by any law that prevents the birth of humans into substandard conditions.
What the law tries to do at present, is to prevent those substandard conditions
in which persons are born into continuously and brought up in, from affecting
others. After a person is born into substandard living conditions, the only
thing that can be done by the law or any other agency is to better or remove
that substandard environment, which is mostly unaffordable and therefore
impractical. Practical, maybe for a few environments here and there, but not for
all environments. Affordable, maybe for a while, but not for long. For true
effectiveness of all laws, the first and most basic law should effectively
prevent human birth into substandard conditions. That law which ought to be
enforced before any other law is the law requiring basic financial capability to
become a parent.
If it is ensured that children are born into financially secure environments,
the next generation will be a financially secure generation. The nation, state
or race that ensures this, will have ensured that every one of its members is
treated with basic human dignity and respect. This is not an aim or achievement;
it’s a responsibility on our part to ensure fair treatment and mutual respect.
It’s a responsibility to ensure that people will not be driven to kill each
other for money. It’s a responsibility to ensure that people do not have to
cheat and lie to earn their living. It’s a hugely overlooked responsibility, the
responsibility of ensuring birth into basic financial capability. Enough
financial capability to make theft and dishonesty unnecessary. Enough financial
capability to make overexploitation of natural resources and extinction of
species unnecessary. Birth into basic financial capability, if ensured, would
result in a fair, just and self-sustaining humanity.
The Secret of Fairness and Prosperity
The 10 Laws of True Progress
The Perfect World Discourse
Pointers to the Meaning of Life
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