This is a Virtual Reality (VR), Viewer
A complicated thing that straps on your head, and puts a miniature TV in front of your eyes.
It comes with a miniature instruction book full of warnings about its dangers.
The main danger I can see, is that it does not work. You need a personal instructor for you and only you and your thing.
In large parts of the world. fighting is going on with few people knowing what they are fighting over.
Someone should step in and make a map of what they are fighting over. And keep making maps as long as they show what is going on, who is fighting who.
This could be supplemented by furnishing the combatants with phones so they can talk to each other easily (and we could listen to these conversations easily). This would not be cheap, but would be less expensive than war.
A helper is someone who helps you when you need them. We could not get along without them.
They will put you in an ambulance and take you to a hospital. Where professional helpers will know what to do with you.
A friend is someone who likes you, regardless of your other qualities - like your dog.
Ray is my helper, and takes me in his car once a week to Cartago, where I can get my packages that are flown in from Miami, that was shipped from Amazon.
He can speak Spanish, which is a big help. And provides two Internet connections to our house.
Since the closing days of the Cold War, U.S. policymakers, pundits, international relations scholars, and policy analysts have argued that great-power war is a relic of a bygone age. In 1986, the historian John Lewis Gaddis termed the post–World War II era a “Long Peace” because the Soviet Union and the United States had not come to blows. A few years later, the political scientist John Mueller suggested that changing norms had made great-power conflict obsolete. By 2011, the psychologist Steven Pinker was arguing that the Long Peace had morphed into a “New Peace,” marked by a generalized decrease of violence in human affairs.
I have been trying to interest my family in Microsoft Teams. Bur religious people that they are, they are not interested. Teamwork does not apply to Religion. Why?
Because Religion is hierarchical, with its important people and unimportant people. Group decisions cannot be made there. They know they should be able to do make decisions demographically. but they also know they cannot and should not.
In fact, this applies to most social situations. Equality does not apply there, instead inequality. usually vast inequality. And this is what people feel comfortable with.
This is what is behind Business, and in our time, Startups.
The simplest way of doing this was slavery, the system that ran the ancient world. And much later, the plantation world. This is now considered morally reprehensible because it does not allow the Individual to develop fully.
Doing this now is difficult. because people have to be convinced that joining you would be to their advantage. They are not going to give away their power easily.
In some cases, people arrive in power accidentally, and manage to perpetuate their power, as dictators. This may or may not last.
This is a huge understatement, but one we ignore with all our strength.
We look around us and see nothing but people, how can we be a failure?
Indeed, if there were fewer of us, we would be more successful. We pour gasoline into our cars, which pump out all kinds of nasties. But we say "This is not a problem!"
