Little Utopia

I operate at maximum efficiency when my mind has one single focus or goal as opposed to several overlapping at the same time. I have difficulties with the balancing act of multi-tasking. By maximum efficiency, I mean 'easy like sunday morning.'

I also feel really conflicted by the concept of foreign aid to "developing" nations. I think its presumptuous to elicit the term "developed" versus "developing." Who was charged with determining the baseline for this scale? A fitting African proverb states that "Until the lion has his or her own storyteller, the hunter will always have the best part of the story."

I think that foreign aid contributes to keeping the developing world perpetually on a, shockingly even, plateau that consistently resists growth according to Western scales. In other words, I'm wondering if the very nature of foreign aid is outright counter-productive. The problem to its own solution.

The way my universe looks is that we as a world localize ourselves. Release foreign dependency as a worldwide concept. [We have come to the point, as a world population, that we are seeing the additive effects of our impact to our environment. It is now time to take all innovation to the next level and apply it to sustaining ourselves on this planet utilizing the resources of the natural climate that currently exists around us and release foreign dependency as a standard. Because we've already laid the foundation for the existing infrastructure systems, it is up to us to innovate further to sustainability within our means.] Countries must take a firm stand against industry metathesizing beyond the human and material means of it's geographical area. Growth beyond these limits has proven to be environmentally, socially, and politically unsustainable.

In terms of politics, I think that we know what is best for us. But I cannot ever think that we know what is best for everyone else. In my universe, no nation will guide the internal processes of any other nation. In times of humanitarian crisis, the international community will act because genocide will no longer be tolerated.

To round out my universe, I think its necessary to incorporate a social aspect. I do not want it rife with isolationism. As it is, we can communicate regularly with people across the world in seconds. We have learned more about each other culturally in the last 50 years as a result of innovation and technology advancement than we had learned of each other in all of human existence prior to this age of modernity. What I mean is that I want to be able to visit countries around the world to learn about their culture. Just to learn, for my edification. To interact globally for the sake of expanded cultural and behavioral exposure.

I think we are approaching a culmination in which we will have to learn to do some variation of all of these things in order to continue to cohabit together as a people and with our host environment. That little utopia.