We can't go back


In a TED-dialog Yuval Harari explains why we in the future have to have some global administration or even leadership.

Two of the biggest problems in the future will be climate change and artificial intelligence.

The poorest countries will be the ones that will suffer most of both the threats.
AI will probably make millions of people without a job.
The jeans made in Pakistan that I recently bought (they are "eco-friendly") will soon be made by machines.

The trucks will soon find their way without drivers.

And what will then happen to the truck drivers?

The economy are already global and cannot be regulated by national laws.


And the greenhouse gases are mainly produced by the rich countries.

So we need some global leadership. And that will probably not be a democrat or elected one, according to Harari.

But he seem to mean that it no other way to solve the coming problems.

I´m sure he's also influenced by trend he has written about; The world is getting smaller and smaller, from the start of our human history. From small tribes, to villages, to cities, to countries, to federations and so on....
We now can fly to another continent in some hours and instantly have a conversation with a friend overseas, via internet.

My electric bike is made in China and my shoes made in Vietnam.

And Bach's music. though made in Germany, is loved all over the world.



 As Harari points out, even if we live in a global world we can still have smaller connections as family and friends, peers, relatives, a county and even a nation. It's "just" different levels.

Though Harari seldom speaks about it, but he is deeply influenced by the Vipassana meditation training that he has practiced for a long time.

You can hear it in the dialog above, when he speaks about the urge to connect to the body. And that's what meditation is about; to concentrate on the breath instead of the thoughts and the ideas we all have.
He also speaks the will to abolish suffering.  That's Buddhas urge too.

Though I think it will be impossible. Some suffering can in the long run be good, as we learn from it.
And how to stop ageing and the brutal killing in the slaughterhouses?

Harari is a vegan, but most of us want to eat meat. But, of course, we can eat less meat and fish. That would be good for nature too.

And we may find a way to not exaggerate the suffering of ageing.

I guess we can do that with less thinking too.

And by being active. I'm going to take the tube to play table tennis right now.
And I will try not to think too much, but to let the body rule while I play.

That's mindful table tennis:













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