Could children build a better world than adults?

Question from the Internet:

“Wouldn’t the world be a lot better off if we took away all decision-making power from adults and sent them to a remote island where they can’t do any more harm?”

I assume you mean to take away decision making from adults and let children organize the world?

This seems a nice idea, although whoever read the book, “Lord of Flies”, has experience with children ruthlessly bullying each other has some idea about what children would do with the unlimited power they receive.

It is true that adults are corrupted, selfish and they destroy everything and everybody like cancer — regardless of the ideology, philosophy, systems or religions they use.

But these adults were once children and it is the children who grew up into such adults. We can of course argue about “chicken and egg”, but fortunately unique empirical, natural scientists provide the answer so we do not need to endlessly argue.

It does not matter whether we are children or adults. It does not matter where we are born, how we grow up, what upbringing or education we have received so far.

We are all born with the same, inherently selfish egocentric, individualistic and exploitative nature. Thus as children and as adults, we care only about ourselves and about how to succeed at the expense of others.

And while it is difficult to accept and stomach, and we can find myriads of ways to refute it, ignore it, fight these notions, humanity’s history and the events of our present generation all reinforce what those special scientists teach us — which teaching is based on observing human nature in contrast to Nature’s finely integrated system for millennia.

The solution is not pointing, singling out a certain part of humanity, claiming that there are evil ones and good ones among us and by separating, censoring, destroying the “evil ones” we can make humanity great again.

The only solution is for each person to recognize their own, inherently cancer-like, destructive nature — starting in childhood — and then willingly participate in consciously, methodically changing ourselves, changing how we relate to each other.

This will of course not start with all 8–9 billion people all at once. But if a certain, critical minority (about 15–20%) of any given environment) starts this process, their positive example, positive influence can then draw the rest behind them, especially as the world, in general, will only get worse as long as we blindly follow our instinctive nature.