What Is Humanity's Goal?

With over 7 billion people on this planet, and we've been globalized for so long now, what is Humanity's aim and goal? Is there any direction? Guidance? I know Humanity has been working on population control but aside of that what is Humanity's real goals? Peace on Earth? Heaven on Earth? Are these delusions? Wishful thinking? Hopes?

Deep thoughts sitting atop my mind ...

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Humanity is still caught in a primitive struggle over resources and greed which slows us to a crawl overall. Some of that greed is defined easily as a need for power over people's lives. What a purely psychotic need when you get down too it. Sure, we have some true leaders who want to advance humanity at large. But too often we have more of the power-hungry, intolerant and clique-ish people gobbling up all of the control points in their personal quest for power. It's disgusting. But it's reality.

Humanity needs a great unifying event.

 

humanity doesn't need a goal. other then to avoid screwing each other out of a world we could otherwise all find gratifying to live in.

some day we might want to grow up enough to meet the neighbors on worlds orbiting other suns, but furst we need to grow up enough to do so politely.

 

Great post George. The system under which we live, unbridled capitalism (in the so-called civilized world), will be looked upon as truly

aberrant behavior by those who chronicle human history. It brings out the worst in humans and is obvious when you consider what the

state of the world is and has become. Human societies could have taken a different tack on who owns what and why they own what they own

if a closer look at the potential results of basing most everything humans do on "get as much as you can at the expense of anything

and any body." To me, there is something wrong with the brains of people that, for example, have gathered billions and billions of

dollars while millions of others starve, die miserable deaths from lack of food and/or shelter and think that this is an ideal way

for humanity to live on this little planet. If humanity survives the ebbs and flows of the macho posturing and the total certainty in

which the beliefs that the 'haves' are correct, and this continues into the future--it will only get worse for most of humanity.

Eventually, bad goes to worse and worse goes to WORST.

It COULD have been different given that those for whom power is/has been their prime mover--if benevolence, empathy and forethought

had been figured into the equation, unbridled greed may have been ameliorated to the advantage of all humanity.

It wasn't, it isn't and from all appearances --not likely.

So there is no general human goal as such. Only that which manifests from the 'haves' and the goals of

individuals. To sum this up: shit will hit the fabled fan, sooner or later. And when shit hits fan--

shit does not discriminate on whom it lands. Buy more. Buy more now.

 

IMO, the only thing people should be concerned with is to smile as often as possible, and to help others smile whenever you get the opportunity to do so, as long as nobody gets hurt in the process. Nothing else matters. Whether you be impoverished or wealthy, we are all just trying to find our next smile.

One thing that saddens me, and even angers me, is that, for the most part, people can't survive without money. The saying is "money is the root of all evil", but I think that the need for money is the root of all evil, because desperate people do desperate things. People shouldn't need money to lead happy and healthy lives, whatever "happy and healthy" means to the individual, or to support their families.

Another thing that saddens/angers me is religion and the lives that have been lost because of it, as well as the self-hatred that comes with a lot religion(I'm mainly referring to the Abrahamic religions). Humanity's goal should be to eliminate all religion, or at least the religions who go to war with eachother over land/money/oil/control/whatever. As soon as we're old enough to understand words, our parents' beliefs are drilled into our heads, which is, essentially, brainwashing. That's one of the many things I admire about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt..............they expose their children to every religion they possibly can, and they keep religious texts from every religion they can find for their bookshelf, so their children can make their own choice. Brad Pitt has been quoted as saying he's approximately "20% atheist and 80% agnostic", and Jolie has said she has no use for religion, but they still wanna expose their children to those religious texts, which is extremely admirable(I hope their children end up being atheists though, because fuck religion and all it stands for). That's how all parents should be, even if the parents happen to be christian/muslim/jewish/etc.. I think the world would be a much better place, if that were the case.

 

Humanity's Goal would be shown if we had no ego. I think its the worst thing we carry with us. The more we (greed) which is also horrible for us, our ego, makes us selfish, also horrible for us, which then blinds us to what really matters because when you reach strength in this world money will be so involved that the power will cringe the soul and the person will forgot what really matters ...

I don't think we even know our own goal because we still kill each other to further goals which makes others distracted to fix that first, but then we need to fix this as well and then we realize their is so much shit going on it feels overwhelming.

the Ego... its so evil..

This is show in many parts of the world. Religious, sociopathic politics and individuals..

Chances are the world won't come together and forget about past and biased ways tell something effects the world and is killing the everyone forcing us to stand together. I think this is coming, but its so debatable as what will really start it. Maybe it already started.. hard to say.

Something will force everyone world wide regardless of religion, or skin color, to come together.

Maybe not, and we just blow each other up, and the survivors are still at war for food and supplies because the population has been reduced by 98%

:smoking:

 

Capitalism is just the latest way to describe elements of commerce that go back to bartering. I see money as part of the evolution of trade, but I don't see it as the end result. We only created money because carrying a cow or a field of wheat to market was a pain in the ass. As humans we allow our clever solutions to problems fool us into thinking we're civilized. We have eons to go and we know it. SO the resource wars will continue. Pulling out of the economy has to be incremental, but I highly suggest it for everyone. Start trading more and dollaring less!

 

There is no final revolution.

 

To have everything we want in abundance.

 

for that, we would need to plant the seeds of imagination, water them with logic and reason, and not trample them with the ignorance of hatered.

oddly enough, i believe we are perfectly capable of doing so.

 

Ignorance is ignorance simply.There is no reason in the spite of hatred. Spite is the very like kind of hatred. In that spite nowhere is hatred diminished. Hatred is a desperate call for love. The fact is we do have everything we want in abundance but do not realize that what we want is reflected in the power of our invocations and have become convinced that what we want is illusive or somewhere distant. We are confused about what is and is not and whether a thing is the same or different. Some confuse pain with joy giving addiction as a brief example. It is not that we are capable and don't it is that we do not recognize the effects of our own thinking in lending character/s to the world. Having and being are the same.

 

LOL....

what a perfectly conceited, self-absorbed, egotistical, anthropocentric, completely and pathetically human notion, that there is a "goal".

Only a life form as self absorbed as a human would actually assume that there is some ultimate "goal" revolving around them in all of this.

 

We all have immediate goals funny boy. Where da food at?

 

true, but the original question posed was not regarding personal, immediate goals, but asked about a far reaching, overall grand purpose for "Humanity".

Further the question as posed would ultimately preclude any immediate, personal goals in favor of "Humanities real goals".
It is assuming there is some "direction" or "end goal" to humanities existence and sounds to me to be a very Judea-Christian attitude.


"where's da beef?"
yes, by extrapolation the most basic needs have been politicized, romanticized, codified, religinionified into what we call "civilization" with all it's requisite bullshit and conflicts, but it still is ultimately about who has the beef......

 

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There isn't a single, unifying goal. Therein lies the problem.

Conditions are out of kilter now for most. Those that COULD consider a more humane, equatable human earth-wide society and actually have the power to change could/can

never even conceive of such a shift in thinking about the impact a peaceful world society would have on their fellow citizens. Why should they?? They have it made.

 

All life has a unifying goal to protect and extend if you want an overarching abstraction and there is diverse expression of this depending on level of identification. That we don't recognize our common inheritance is a problem.

 

Why does humanity have to have a goal leading somewhere? It is the unsettled mind that is always looking for future things and greater things. It is just looking to have permanency in what it does and so it needs a goal to keep itself going. Whatever goal put before you will only lead to further goal setting that leads nowhere. There isn't any majestic plan for humanity for only what humanity puts for itself to achieve. Other than that, life does not demand much from you but reproduction of the species for survival.

 

To defeat death. We do this by reproduction. It's that same goal shared by every organism.

The will of collective survival is also pretty noble in humans. It's why we fall in love, why we protect ourselves and those we care about. Most of us even want to help strangers as much as possible.

And the fact that we're in every corner of the planet makes us pretty hearty. If all of Eurasia plumeted into the sea from a giant earthquake, we'd still have the western hemisphere. (the best hemisphere!) We've reached a point of growth where our intelllegence, by which I mean creative abilities had better quickly catch up to the effects of our overpopulation, or we might be in for another dark age for a little while.

At our best humans are pretty inspiring creatures who've walked upon their moon and cured many diseases, and at our worst, are probably the biggest threat to our entire ecosystem.

I dunno what the rest of you have planned. I'm trying to amass enough wealth to purchase real estate on Mars for my grandchildren to inherit, and invest in it's colonization.

If that doesn't work out, amass enough wealth to fill a small room with quarters, and then swim around in it, like Scrooge McDuck.

Plan C is clown college.

 

To paraphrase Billy Borroughs, I don't subscribe to any idea of humanity or mankind. When you say "we", to me it means a very small "we" indeed.