How about this for an answer to all life's current problems.?

Question

A philosopher once stated:

I'm gonna share with you a vision that I had, cause I love you. And you feel it. You know all that money we spend on nuclear weapons and defense each year, trillions of dollars, correct? Instead - just play with this -- if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world -- and it would pay for it many times over, not one human being excluded - we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever in peace.

That 'philosopher' was the late Bill Hicks. Does that or does that not answer the current problems the world is facing?

Answer 1

It may be an ideal, but, practically speaking, humans cannot part with their money, authority or sense of superiority. Where the human race went wrong was when it embraced religion as not only a way to explain the unexplainable, but to subjugate weaker people in the name of conversion. That was an ideal, too. But today, millions are starving, oppressed and dying because of religious beliefs.

Answer 2

It seems like there is always a devil, or demon in every nations plan to remain at peace. It seems like no matter what, all nations sooner or later must go to war for no better reason than to bolster their economy. I find it astonishing that countries of the world so advanced that they are into space travel and exploration on one side. But at the other side they are still war mongering to maintain their economies. Bill Hicks's answer for solving the current problems of the world would work quite nicely if it were not for these evil ones, which never seem to let go of their strangle hold on the worlds people. Peace to you my friend!

Answer 3

Now all you have to do is get allll the power-crazed, g reedy, psychopathic leaders of certain countries around the world, and all the money-hungry, selfish, warmongering "aggressionists", and all the fanatical religious extremists, and all the sleazy, sneaky, opportunists, and all the crime elements around the world, waiting for the chance to take advantage of the weakest, and the dreamy idealists - to get together and sign a pact to just change their "bad ways" and stop doing what they have always done, and just get on board with your Super-Plan to turn the whole world into one big loving family.
Better get started on that right away. It's gonna take a while LOL.

Answer 4

That is a utopian concept.

First you have to get rid of all the tyrants in the world and make
sure that no more are born. Hicks did not address that problem.

Before you consider any philosophy as an answer to any particular
problem, you need to think about the ramifacations of that
solution.

Communism looks good on paper, but it dosen' work.

Answer 5

Well yeah. It's sickening how much money is thrown away on the military & weaponry, instruments of destruction instead of spending money on protecting life, money on food & healthcare for the starving & the ill. Billions of dollars that could be used to improve human life rather than destroy it. But here's the thing: they will never stop making weapons or having armed forces. For a couple of reasons:

Boys who like to play war grow into men who like to play war. They'll even declare war on false grounds just as a chance to play with their big toys & blow things up. They will war over religion (how ironic is that when God/Allah whatever you choose to call him wants us to love each other not kill each other). They will war over land. (Again like nasty kids in a playground, I want what you have! Give it to me!)

Also, it's perceived self-defense. No country is going to be willing to do away with its weapons & be left essentially defenseless against all the other countries that still have theirs. Everyone would have to agree. This will never happen.

Sure, in a utopia, in a perfect world quite unlike the one we are in, we could decide, as a planet to do away with weaponry to be a peaceful loving planet & be kind to each other.

Isn't going to happen. War & weapons make money. Men are greedy, power-hungry, blood-thirsty. They don't want peace. Look at history. The live for war.

Answer 6

thats a totally ace idea but can u ever see the human race actually being compassionate enough to do that? all those people growing rich by selling guns, drugs etc, they really aren't going to think about the poor and starving

but yes it would answer at least one of the probs that the world is facing

Answer 7

man does not live by bread alone. on the other hand, rock group Blind Faith got it right in the 60's: "Everybody must be fed."
"Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large; I contain multitudes." Walt Whitman
(by the way, nuclear weapons are demonic, built to destroy the world.) STOP WAR SAVE THE WORLD

Answer 8

All life's current problems.? Sadly no. Even if you could get this worked out and everyone was be fed and never hungry, you'd then need to spend on curing illness, housing, work and even then there'd be selfish cruel people that'd find some way of making more 'problems' wouldn't there?

Which doesn't mean that I don't wish like hell that it'd work!!!

Answer 9

When I read that a wave of peace came over me and I wanted to sit by a campfire holding hands singing Kumbahya. But getting everyone to go along with it will never happen. If only one person did not wan to follow the global brother hood plan, he would amass wealth and power and rule the world..... unless we killed him.

Answer 10

War is completely barbaric. It's quite unbelievably that in this day and time we are still at War. Killing innocent people is senseless. Killing people in general is senseless. Aren't we all going to die anyway? Do you really have to kill me? There's one thing that is absolutely promised and that is death. Must you make it happen any faster than it would happen naturally?

Men...

I truly believe it's testosterone. If more women were in power, there would be no more Wars.

Peace can happen, but minds have to change. When there is HATE there will be WAR!