I ask this question a good bit. It turns out that if you want to make the world a better place, it is helpful to know what it is you’re working toward. ALL motivational speakers, business and success gurus will tell you this… visualize what you are working toward then make plans to get there. I don’t know that we could all come to complete agreement as to what the ideal world looks like, but I am curious what it looks like to you. I am curious to know what the whole world thinks about this question. What are we working toward here? So….
What does an Ideal World look like?
I know many of you read the blog and don’t respond but in this case I would really love to have your thoughts. I’d also encourage you to retweet or forward this around to as many friends as possible. I would love to see what we come up with here. Please include your thoughts in the comments section below. Thank you for helping me with this “research project.”
Ideal world is where people don’t have to lie. Have honest love and kindness for each other and all things (kindness in heart in general). People are motivated, inspired, and constantly seeking to learn…have taken the homo sapiens USP, intelligence, to a higher level without losing sight of humanity. We have solved the issues of destitute, and everyone concerns him/herself with contributing to the goodness.. I almost laugh at how quixotic I sound.
I realize this world will always be layered in terms of privileged and underprivileged, that’s the only way human being with our sense of thoughts CAN see ourselves as privileged.
I guess I would like an “ideal world” where people don’t fight, live at peace with each other, love and care for each other, and care for the world and work together to find bigger answers which these petty issues only work to completely blindside us from. There is SO much which we still don’t know about…therefore have to come up with different speculations which, when clash, bc they’re only speculations/hypotheses, lead to even more fighting!
In an ideal world, all human beings will realize the value of humility, intelligence, and love.
An ideal world versus an ideal situation. Two ideas I had previously combined as one concept. It was with your recommendations of a couple of books that I learned to distinguish between the two.
To me, contributing to making the world more ideal means giving and giving positively – instead of taking. It means making a contribution that improves the world. And I don’t believe it always needs to be big or noble or public . Not everyone needs to dress as Santa and collect for the Salvation Army. It might be giving your music, or your words (in this blog), or your gift as an educator.
Any form of positive contribution in my opinion is a contribution to the ideal world. If only everyone gave just a bit more instead of always taking….
I am starting to feel that the ideal situation creates itself. It’s putting yourself in the state of flow. And perhaps the state of flow comes naturally, when you find your contribution method.
That’s a little bit of a roundabout explanation – and I hope it makes sense. It’s what I’m feeling.
Noah
Hey Ben,
I’m short on time so heres mine:
People would lead by example; there would be no such thing as litter.
People should treat each other well; upon first meeting a stranger should be assumed to be a friend as there would be no reason to treat them otherwise. People would think about their actions or cause/effect before carrying them out…
Generally this is a bit of a utopian view as it assumes everyone in the world to have lived a good life with no reason for suspicion etc. When it comes to survival this is not possible; people will always have negative experience with each other and situations will always escalate. I’d like it to work so I’ll lead by example but I won’t delude myself that it will ever be like this unless some kind of mass change happens…
That’s such a tough and wide-open question that people might have a hard time committing themselves to even a comment here…it’s tempting to try and explain what you would see in an ideal world — how you would describe it. This approach kind of assumes that you can peel back the layers and uncover what is the commonality or keeping everything together in this utopian view. But the more I think about it, it might be best to try and get at the very core and everything else would build *out* from there?
Ideal world…where all of humanity finds the larger purpose of our earthly lives and commits to it in unity. Now personally I have my own opinions on that larger purpose, but that is the core understanding for the conditions from which everything else would work out. Does that make sense?
A world without crooked politics would suffice!