I am a diligent student of modern and ancient. And yet, my personal biases often got the best of me. They say - HALT ! Do not make decisions when Hungry, Lonely, Angry or Tired.
I slip and slide even deeper.
I am often hostage to my prejudices and biases. My meditations, my emotional control, my hubris wisdom, my massive cornucopia of knowledge acquisitions do not help me. I keep trying. Finally, I surrendered to the higher power and to my two gorgeous Alaskan Malamutes.
And with brave Ukrainians.
I talk to several young Ukrainians in their prime time, lost - no job, no income, no meaning to life, bills to pay. Their education and worth now hostage to pigs like Pootin and Wagner Group chief Prigozhin. I love Russia and Russians. I grew up an Indian. Russians did so much for my country while USA, my mostest favoritest nation in the world, under bastards like Nixon and Kissinger, chose to not just abandon India but to actually destroy us. They both armed Pakistan and woo'ed China. I will stop at that political story here.
I don't know it all. I often find myself talking stupid and careless. And I am 55 years old ! I have no excuse, the higher powers clearly say - You asked for free will and wisdom, you have it. What next?
Nothing ancient, historical, medieval is of less importance to me.
I have spend thousands of hours listening to college-level courses from the finest academic minds who really are passionate about what they do.
If you kind readers are interested, I will bring about my own impressions why we are here, but in this article, I only want to say what is on my mind.
I am 55 years old. If I am not worth keeping alive as deemed by AI, or the super-amazing longevity work done by Calico, 23andme.com and other amazing people .... I want to speak now.
- I strongly believe Nuclear energy is our future. Sun is nuclear, and is our uber giver of life. Fossil fuels will mess up our climate even more, in all forms. Lithium is very toxic. EV tech based on Lithium is asking for more destruction. So we stick to Fossil fuels and build on Nuclear energy like Bill Gates.
- We constantly hurt, beat, cheat, trade our young women. They are the ones who take humanity forward. We have turned a blind eye to young women who get the worst treatment from the world. Grow up please. Mother Nature is watching. She is experimenting and learning too. She is watching how we mistreat our most reproductive members of society. We cruelly trade young girls to rich people all over the world as if they are meat and then we discard them to a world of despair. Mother nature watches how we humans just take and take and rarely give back. Mother nature took out Dinosaurs.
- We need a new dose of humility. We must stop taking our collective human hubris so seriously. Despite AI and all little tinker toys we have, Mother nature will take us out, in one day.
- AI is already here. It has been here for many decades. Let us stop pretending mindlessly that AI is an enemy. Let us grow up together with AI and do this right, not leave it to the rich and greedy owners claiming to know it all,
- Social media is a much larger conversation than AI at this point . Look at the uber Social Media megalomaniac who probably loses no sleep that social media is often featured as a leading potential cause that increases the probability of self-harm. Suicide rates among Young women has tripled in about 13 years.
- We waste trillions of dollars searching for bacteria on moons of Jupiter or some life elsewhere. Why? All that money can be used to discover our oceans and making our world a better place.
- We want to go to Mars. What can I say about the sense in this, Mr Musk? I am glad you are talking about it less. A payload of a few pounds to Mars costs almost a trillion dollars with no guarantee of safe arrival. We can restore our oceans and live under water. We can live in less habitable places. We can stop over-concentrating in urban areas. We can work together. I am happy here. This is Mother Earth, I love you mama. I want to die here in your embrace. You are the only home I know.
- It is time we stem the slide in our tastes in media. It is nice but is it worth watching silly videos ten times? We can stop the proliferation of mediocrity and Least common denominators on TV and news. We can pause making rich stars of people who really have nothing good to offer to the rest of world.
- We have very serious epidemics of depression, anxiety, PTSD, suicides, hunger, poor metabolism, poor diets, diabetes and worse. Is it not more important to discuss these than how soon the youngest billionaire get there?
- I request all to support art, creativity, talent, literature, libraries, music schools, martial arts, sports academies in your neighborhood. Please divert some resources to community building, my wonderful cohabitants in the world. Let us heal our worlds. It is not hard. It doesn't take away fun or games from your life.
Orlando Magic TV host, Rays TV reporter for FanDuel Sports Network, National Correspondent at NewsNation and Media Director for Otter Public Relations
4 个月Great share, Rakesh!