Humanity's Goals

At one time Humanity did not know it was on a marble floating around the sun in a vast universe. Humanity knows that now (to a scientifically acceptable extent) and can better affect its future because of it. -------- How much more will Humanity be able to affect its course when it knows what lies beyond the edges of the universe we've detected? Maybe it won't be better off... maybe it'll be worse off... but I'd rather know. -------- If Humanity wants to know what lies beyond those detected edges of the universe and what occurs at the most quantum levels of the universe, then it must focus the maximum of its efforts on those inconceivably long and difficult tasks. -------- Having the stated mission of learning as much about the physical universe as possible is a powerful thing. Mission type orders have trickle down effects that give value to the most mundane of daily efforts and coordinate people in unforeseen ways. Simply saying "as much as possible" implies that we must put effort toward maximizing our habitable environments (i.e. maximize Earth's shelf life for us and seek out other planets a la Interstellar), that we must put effort toward maximizing education, toward minimizing suffering, toward maintaining our sanity thru arts, entertainment and adventure. It takes a village and in this case a planet just to have a fighting chance of getting answers. -------- If we want Humanity (even 10,000 yrs from now) to be able to have even the remotest chance of answering the most daunting questions about the universe we inhabit, then we have to make getting those answers our primary mission right now. -------- The condition in the second half of the mission statement that individual rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness should be maintained is necessary to avoid using people as fodder for accomplishing the first half of the mission statement. Not a small statement at all but secondary to the overall point here. -------- https://www.facebook.com/goalsofhumanity -------- https://twitter.com/GoalsOfHumanity -------- New Bern , NC

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