Do people want to change the world?

11/08/2023 Nilson Lattari

Everybody wants to change. We want to move to another place, city, or country, including changing furniture, the size of the TV, clothes, lovers, families, etc.
Changing is always fine. These people’s actions in the world make them and the world go ahead. They are positive for some people and good for a few people but they aren’t good for most of them. Changes have a side that is beneficial for one group and not good for other groups.
Throughout History, humanity runs in a way that we always suppose to be moving forward. We can see the world in terms of technology. Maybe this situation can be positive because machines have changed the world, and they have saved our time as well. Since the industrial revolution, machines have been helping us, depending on the machine, they support us in different ways, whether they are cleaning our homes or going to war. It’s complicated, isn’t it?
I can explain: changes have a relation between space and time. While our space is shrinking in the world, we wish for more stuff and junk when we use our free time. We are operating this free time supported by machines in exchange for our space.
We have been exploring spaces while people have been occupying the world, crowding it with houses and other things, including the destruction of nature. We don’t imagine that we gain quality and time of life, while we lose our humanity. Then, we haven’t been understanding that we have been losing space to live, in exchange we imagine that technology is enough to enjoy the time. This is not a change. It is a paradox.
When we want to change, whatever issues like social politics or others, we always see the world from our point of view. Then, we have an individual perspective of life or what is good for us, simply, and we don’t imagine if our opinion is good for all. In fact, do we want to change the world or do we want to change it for our benefit?
In reality, we want equality for all and we think that lives would be a standardized product. The question is: do we want to give up our benefit for others?
Those who have twenty billion would like to gain five billion. Maybe this is not a hard goal to achieve. Those who have twenty million would like to gain five million. Maybe this is not so hard to achieve as well, but it can be more difficult. Those who have twenty thousand would like to gain five thousand, and this goal is more difficult yet. Those who haven’t got anything would like to gain something. This task is almost impossible.
The last one has the disposition to take out something from someone, and his life will be harder and harder. Because the one who has billions is on a superior level, on the top. And it will be impossible to reach him. While in the middle of this scale, the one who has less doesn’t consider losing pieces of his goods to help his neighbours because he will be the next one who won’t have anything. Or, at least, he will stay at an inferior level.
The balance in the world depends on if the last one would like to lose something to benefit others. This change will never happen. In the end, few people who live in a comfortable place could say: why do we have to change the world if my life is good for me?
Making changes involves losing something. Who wants to do this?