[KenWittlief]

Society on the Future?

I think one of our biggest problems is we dont have any specific purpose or direction as a country, species, or for society in general.

For most of the last few thousand years people spent most of their lives just trying to stay alive - food, clothes and shelter, provide for the real-life needs of your family.

But today? It takes very little effort to feed yourself, to have clothing and shelter - so what is our real purpose today?

What are we trying to accomplish as a society, a nation? a species?

Will people be dancing in the streets if we find some ooze of goo living under a rock on Mars? Will we have fullfilled our purpose if we have 10 people living on Mars (with living conditions very much like our south pole?).

You tell young people "you have to work hard, to have to strive..."

but the question that has no clear answer right now is "Why?"