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officially be able to put an end to one of the most horrifying, violent, and universally detrimental
enterprises in human history: War. First of all, there would be no governments to force their people to
go to war, and there would be no 'countries' to go to war with. Let's stop and think for a moment: Why
do countries go to war? Sometimes, it's because they want some resource another country possesses;
everyone would be given everything they need to have a happy, healthy life in a RBE. Some wars are
fought because one country feels they need protection from the other; in an RBE, there would be
almost no violence or threats to need protection from. All too often, wars are fought for monetary
profit; we would no longer have a monetary system that encourages the exploitation of suffering for
profit.
A world without war almost sounds too good to be true, but we have to keep in mind that large-
scale warfare is a very recent development for our species; it is a product of the societies that we have
created, and is not some inborn 'desire' that humans possess (64). This is likely why so many soldiers
end up with serious psychological issues after returning home from war, such as post-traumatic stress
disorder; the incredible level of violence and horror in a war zone is not something the human mind has
evolved to tolerate. Without war, there would no longer be any need to send dedicated young soldiers
off to their grave in order to ensure that the CEO of some construction company will be able to afford
his weekly dose of cocaine and hookers. By creating a completely new kind of society in which warfare
has literally zero benefits for any person, we would reduce the probability of war down to essentially
zero. That would be a very interesting world to live in.
So, in a non-stressful, highly educated, egalitarian, post-scarcity society, there is no reason why
people of all cultures, genders, sexual orientations, religious beliefs, religious non-beliefs, and
everything in between cannot live together in peaceful co-existence. There would be no reason for a
privileged upper class that runs society, or a set of laws that restrict peoples' freedoms. Without wars,
poverty, unemployment, stock market crashes, and the all too common traumatic situations which
plague today's primitive society, there would be no one to blame, no one to get angry at, and no one to
use as a scapegoat for society's problems; the vast majority of these problems would no longer exist.
However, it's a pretty safe bet that other problems we currently cannot even think of would eventually
start to surface. And, no matter how much we attempted to 'fix' society, there would always be new
problems to deal with. Let's not kid ourselves by thinking this civilization would be 'perfect'. It would
simply be a vast improvement over the society we have today; an improvement that is great enough
that it would be incredibly illogical for us not to at least attempt to pursue something like it.
Life in an RBE
We'll finish this chapter off by talking about what day-to-day life might look like in an RBE.
The best way I can think of to show this would be for me to simply describe the hypothetical life that I
might live in this kind of system. This is simply an example of the kind of life that would be possible in
an RBE; I expect that everyone reading this would have wildly different ideas as to how they would
spend their time. This is another great benefit of an RBE; rather than all of us living nearly identical
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'nine-to-five' lives, there would be massive diversity in the kinds of lives that people would live. So,
here's how I think my life might look in an RBE...
I would wake up in my temporary dwelling whenever I felt like it. After a healthy breakfast, I'd
walk to the nearest transportation station and be whisked off to a research center. Here, I would spend
the day researching biological ageing, which is a particular area of great interest for me. As the day
began to grow late, I would head back home and print myself a customized water pipe. After an
evening of smoking hemp and reading about theoretical physics, I would go to bed. The next day, I
would travel to Machu Picchu, because I've always wanted to see it. The day after that, I might travel to
the other side of the globe, and spend the next few days teaching kids about what it was like to live
during the Second Dark Ages (as I'm sure our modern era will be called in the future). When I wasn't
teaching, I'd spend some time learning about nanotechnology, and hopefully I would one day be able to [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]