What can guide humanity toward the future?

Question from the Internet:

“Should there be a globally accepted ethics of technology?”

The usual ethical and moral concepts or systems cannot help us, not even the laws we constantly draw up and revise. And this is true for technology and everything else.

Whatever we try to do in order to steer human activity toward the “right direction” fail. We do not even know what that “truly right” direction is.

We have no actual comprehension of the world and how it should develop and towards what goals and purpose we should be developing.

We are all sensing and approaching reality from a 100% self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric, and subjective point of view. From our own perspective, we all follow what seems good and right to us and to those we agree with — for the time being. We all have our own ethical and moral codes, and even those keep changing according to our mood and actual circumstances and according to what our insatiable and 100% self-serving desires drive us to want.

We have evolved into a globally integrated and interdependent world where this inherent approach to life and our distorted and corrupted perception is driving humanity from one crisis to the next. We are inherently blind people stumbling from one obstacle to the next, falling from one trap into the next while constantly blaming others for our misfortune.

Thus without a clear direction, without a clear standard of “right vs. wrong,” we can all accept, we cannot determine the “ethics or morals” of technology or any other human activity.

So how could we make billions of diverse, inherently egocentric, and subjective people agree to a single set of standards and goals? Where can we take such standards and goals from?

We can see how Nature’s system cooperates and keeps a fragile balance and homeostasis based on strict laws. Nature does so in order to create and sustain life. We do not have any better examples than that. We have to make it our goal to create and sustain life between us in human society and between humanity and Nature since there is no greater goal or purpose in life.

Moreover, we are the only beings in the whole system that has the capability to create, sense and guide life consciously with full attainment of life’s purpose and all the cause-and-effect processes that lead to it. And by learning how to create and sustain life, we also come to understand the singular force field and deterministic system that gave us life.

And we can do all this here and now, in a completely realistic and practical manner, by learning and practicing how to become healthy cells in a fully and mutually integrated, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing human system.

And for this purpose, we can use everything we have ever built or invented, from our culture to our technology. We just need a great need and desire for this to unfold, as we already have everything else, including the practical and scientific methods that can help us. And that great need and desire we can get either from increasing suffering from blows or from a conscious and willing process which we can go through together without unnecessary suffering.