How can we reverse the spiritual degeneration of the human civilization?

Question

If we take into account the past 3000 years which are microscopic as compared to the age of our planet, we can easily identify an exponential increase in collective human intelligence and technology, especially during the past few centuries. At the same time, we can observe a pronounced decrease of morals, faith, spirituality, reason, trust and happiness: people seek money and lust while only a few believe in love...people that we call leaders of this world act unreasonably...the common man feels helpless in a system where you either fit in the clockwork of corruption or are ruled out. As a human being more than anything else, I ask myself: where are we headed? Will our moral degeneration come to a point where it will be our own undoing? and more importantly...is there any way we can change this course?

yes kent, I agree with you on that. Simplicity does imply a better chance of being content. Nevertheless, your suggestion puts a constraint on our technological advancement. Is there no way of achieving this goal of reversal and promoting technology and intelligence at the same time?

Answer 1

the larger the organization, the more likely corruption will take root. We need to keep our organizations small, on the grass-roots level. Larger organizations will need ot be accountable to its base, not vice versa.

We also all need ot learn how to respect those who are different.

It's a far cry from the global entities running amok, and it will be painful to get there, but it may be the only way to survive the 21st century.

Answer 2

On the whole, more people are able to live together without the threat of death than ever before. More forms of abuse are not put up with, and the actual large scale military assualts have decreased in your timeframe. Anthropologically, humans were at a higher murders per person rate 3000 years ago than we are today. We actually are more peaceful, but we have better access to witness when injustices are done which actually is leveraged as a deterrent against such acts. On a whole and to your scale, we are in a much better world than we have ever been because the crimes are so visible now.