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I came to this website from a Google search. Yes, like most other people who seem distressed about our world, my search term was "what's wrong with the world today?". After hitting the enter key, I discovered this thread from the 4th resulting query link. After reading the heading of the thread and reading a few responses, I thought I would also chime in on my opinion / view in spite of this entire discussion being about 2 - 3 years old. Ha!
I currently live over in Terre Haute, Indiana--this is basically my hometown. I was living up in Fishers, Indiana (northwest of Indianapolis) about a year ago as I was a programmer analyst for Sallie Mae. They offered me the job straight out of college as my discipline consists of Information Technology. On a side note: never let some recruiter tell you that a company interested in your classwork can train you in whatever they need you for if you currently have aspirations for something else. I found out a year later that he was wrong because I was terminated. ...It was a blessing, though.
Anyway, moving from Terre Haute to Fishers was such a drastic change for me at the age of 25 that I doubt I can put it in words. For any of you who might have ever went through Terre Haute, you will know that it's basically a big-small town city. What I mean is that it's everything you would come to expect from a homey town in Indiana with it's fair share of run-down places here-and-there. One thing about Terre Haute, though, is that the people here are relatively nice and humble. They show a certain level of respect and remorse for the city's past as this is evident in the "Old Downtown" projects that constantly pop-up. If you know anything about Fishers, you would know that it's a fairly pricey place amongst the other cities / towns of Indiana and you would come to expect more high-class individuals. Well, those expectations quickly turn very sour after living in this city for about 1 year.
People in Fishers are all busy workaholics that are as cold as a witches tit. Few have manners or respect for others and almost all of them have the common selfish agenda when it comes to waging battle within an office. The contrast from Terre Haute to Fishers is amazing...
After going through this experience in my life, I eventually decided to go back to school as I have a grandmother who (lucky for me) can help me with the expenses. I would've preferred to simply find a job I liked and start a career, but after applying to over 100 places upon termination and realizing that anything remotely assuring would pay less than what I get from drawing unemployment, I eventually made the decision to come back and get into a different field.
My trek or experience in all this has led me to believe in the most lonely of ideas man can think about and this especially increased once the women I loved left me for another guy. People nowadays are up against the corners of life. They have no breathing room and they constantly experience turbulence with almost everything their reality brings to them. There's just too much to worry about now.
While there is obviously no one-shot-one-kill solution to the world's problems, I do propose a few treatments that would be bound to fetch positive results. First, we need to somehow regulate population. This is key. If we do not quickly establish some form of management for our exponential increase in population, our problems will just get worse and worse. One way in which we might possibly do this is by allowing vast tax breaks for those who choose to have only 1 child in a family, etc. Something along those lines, that way nobody is necessarily forced to do anything they wish not to do, but yet, the encouragement is still there with positive financial reward.
Secondly, and while I feel further consideration is required to solidify any substantial proof of this next idea that it is worth pursuing, it might be a good approach in our nation to establish national service jobs in whatever ways we can as long as our ambition with these jobs promote the exploration of new power sources. What I am trying to say here is that a national service job that is made for the research and development of something like nuclear fusion or a Dyson Ring would be, without a doubt, a worthy task. While most national service opportunities are created for the bulk creation of whatever goal is in store for the nation (see the Hoover Dam), there can and always will still be ways in which combined labor can assist in the creation of advanced devices, facilities and technologies.
In the end, however, I realize that these suggestions or ideas will prove to be approaches that will never work as we simply struggle with having a black president. Some of us decide to leave relationships once things turn sour after a month; we forget to be tactful when replying to YouTube statements; we steal; we sell / consume drugs; we do stupid things...
The root of all our problems here is as one previously mentioned about the "human condition". Our perspectives are derived from our realities and due to this, our perspectives have no other way of eliciting reactions from our world unless it helps us as we are all animals ourselves. To say that we keep repeating problems just because we're selfish is idiotic, at best. It has nothing to do with good versus evil or being "polite" and "selfless". It has everything to do, however, with being human and being chaotic, unstructured and illogical as our minds imagine new ways of fixing (and causing) problems.
Things will never change with humans, but, there will always be ways to come back around with a better approach. This alone, will save us.
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