The evolution of the human mind must continue.
Currently is it in a frozen state of uncertainty, fear, inaction, ignorance, polarization, and infectious hate. It didn't have this mental condition for most of our species evolution over nearly 300,000 years.
Its original purpose gave us a unique advantage in solving problems and tool development - with our opposable thumbs. Over the last 10,000 years (more or less) we started developing concepts that improved our tribes ability to bond and cooperate more to survive and thrive.
1) political concepts that would enable some means reducing/controlling violence within the tribe, village, or city.
2) Religious/spiritual concepts that offered answers to questions our mind came up with.
3) Economic concepts helped spur trading/exchange of valued items and specialization of individuals or groups.
These enabled populations to reach large numbers, travel in large groups, and take over land or wealth of larger, smaller, or 'different' populations. This eventually creating 'larger powerful civilizations' that continued to explore other lands and conquer others who had 'different' mental concepts even though they appeared the same physically - or looked significantly different.
Fast-forward a few thousand years and some minds within civilizations began developing defense systems and weaponry to protect or expand their borders, grow their religion, maintain their governance and/or economic system. This continues today.
About 80 years ago some minds invented weapons of mass destruction (WMD). This was a key turning point for our species. Unfortunately then, the most powerful civilizations (nations) failed to adopt a new governing system capable of preventing or controlling this new technological power. Albert Einstein and others offered a rational and logical system, but the most powerful nations preferred to keep their power, weapons, and new global status. And with the creation of the UN they locked in a governance system created about 350 years earlier with the treaty of Westphalia. This globally established the superiority of national sovereignty over the rights of people and environmental sustainably. Huge mistake! Remember the catastrophic results of the US Constitution legalizing the protection of states rights over human rights?
Over the last four decades other forms of WMD evolved along with other weapon systems - with every new technology. Meanwhile, our minds collectively, failed to achieve wisdom. Even though our extraordinary mental intelligence was capable of. it. To this day many powerful nations still refuse to prioritize human rights and the environment over the survival of their existing governing systems.
So our world today now has affordable mass murder weapons available to all. And it is highly unlikely this governance insanity will change. That window will remain closed with the fear and hatred now within the minds of so many people and nations. Consider the fact that most people now have the capacity to weaponize anything - if their mind has will to murder or mass murder.
It is a "self-evident" Truth that the solution to solving our species existential violence problem is in within our mind's capacity to achieve. But only of it our hearts demand that it returns to it's original purpose of solving problems to enable our human family to survive and thrive. Instead of continuing to defend mental concepts that believe one nationality, religion, culture, or skin color is better than another. And this mental belief deserved to dominate the world with fear just because it has the most powerful weapons, wealth, pride, arrogance, or accurate interpretation of scripture.
Most of us don't know or have forgotten that the two primary goals of every life form on earth is to survive and thrive. Thus, our mind now needs to change if humankind has any intention of sustainably surviving and thriving for generations to come.
Hate is a mental illness unknown to other species. Fear, freeze, flight, or fight is their only option. We have two. Talk or fight. If we talk, words must be clear and truthful if we intend to keep violence to a minimum. But there is one other thing equally important. It is at the heart of every religion, insidious culture before religions existed, and even in some other social species. It is the golden Rule. This is hard wired into our body's DNA. Unfortunately, it is our mental state that overruns or overrules this innate instinct. Monkeys will always fight. But only humans mass murder.
Truth! United humankind stands a chance! Divided by our mind's concept - we are toast.
Time is running out for us to change our mind. Adapt or perish. Mental health must become humankind's highest priority. Peace of mind and community peace are both possible. But neither will be sustained without putting the health all people, their minds, bodies, spirits, and our environment first.
At this unique polycrisis turning point in human history our only path to sustainably maximize human freedom, security, prosperity, health, longevity, and posterity is achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals ASAP.
In ten simple words: Keep people and nature healthy. Don't believe everything you think.
Become a verb! Not a noun with adjectives attached.
