Most people consider this a pretty insurmountable problem so it helps to look at this from a logical mind as well. After all the idea isn't religious, but religion has had the same idea. So, it’s very easy to confuse the two.
History is a wonderful place to start when exploring the idea logically. If we look at what’s been done before that’s going to help us get a good idea of what’s going to happen. Unfortunately so far it’s a pretty big mess of people being generally quite rude to each other. This too is a pitfall. The excuse comes out, “we’re doomed to repeat”, which essentially we are unless we learn to act as a group. Remember all that teamwork stuff you learned in school and such, yeah, this is what they were talking about when you zoned out to your gym teachers speech on working together. Who can blame you, it’s a pretty crappy way to try and learn that lesson. However, now we have the Internet. Remember how cool we all thought it was that we could send email even though dial up took 10 minutes just to establish a connection and even web pictures were barely plausible, we all knew it was a big deal, but nobody fully understood why. This is why: now that that level of global communication is at our fingertips once the idea gets up steam again, it will spread without resistance through everything. Like minded people on the Internet tend to be very good at finding each other. Enough people stick… eventually the media has to address it- Bill Gates calls this a positive spiral. History has shown that this concept can be very powerful once it starts to pick up steam. Most religions just took forever to get up any steam and by the time it was big enough they had to use these elaborate narratives in an attempt to communicate to as many people as possible. These were the means of the time to market an idea to a global audience. You can see the logistical nightmare- like plugging holes and each one you plug springs another leak. However, we have the Internet. THAT is why we wont fail…
A little more emotional way to say this- with no intent of comparing myself to , but merely simplify the point of this essay: What if Jesus had a facebook? What if Gandhi was tweeting? Except in this scenario, we are ALL the saviors because we know it and we live it.
All of these concepts are usually discussed in vague terms that try to describe slippery concepts, so it’s very easy to lose the message. Religion hasn’t had much success because they have chosen to make rules to help everyone get the concept even if they haven’t fully grasped the idea that drives those rules. Think of the rules as a way of jump starting the niceness to each other. This usually has the effect of people not liking being told what to do. Nowhere in my message is there any “you have to do this” “this is what you’re supposed to do”… just the idea that if everyone behaved kindly towards you, then you wouldn’t be able to stop returning the emotion, and now that we have the Internet… jump starting this is an actual possibility… Yeah it’s a bit naive but it’s awfully fun and nobody gets hurt if we do actually fail so pretty much we’ve run out of excuses.
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