Is it presumptuous to "give advice" to billionaires...?
Well perhaps, if you think that money if the most important thing in life... Fortunately, I don't so here goes:
What Bill and Warren should be looking at is the QUALITY OF LIFE... not merely the QUANTITY OF LIFE...
Saving life is fine...vaccinations are wonderful...but if people are merely "kept alive" what's the point?
People need "something to do"...something to live FOR... It's not merely about "not dying"...it's about purposeful living.
If Free Trade and Globalism reduce the human life to a mere "input cost"...just keeping people alive so they can buy more stuff...or work cheaper will hardly be a benefit to anyone.
Seniors are "kept alive" thanks to new drugs...but to DO WHAT...? Watch more re-runs on TV Land...? And sit in rocking chairs? Whats' the point? Can the years from age 65 to age 85 ever have meaning...as those years did in the "olden" days for the lucky few who lived that long?
What is seriously lacking in the world today...is DEEPER MEANING.
We don't have the Gods to marvel at anymore...we are all secretly atheists. We don't have any of the over-arching mysteries that made life strange and enchanted as in the past. That lack of mystery is likely why these wilderness "survival" TV shows are so popular...people want meaning and mystery and adventure...not just "more stuff" in their lives.
Of course some born-agains and Muslim Jihadi...do have meaning in their lives...and that meaning is hate and fear and endless wars... This has been the real by-product of religion for thousands of years...
Can that be changed...?
The world today with Dubya and Osama and Kim is no better than it was in the dark ages in terms of the quality of our emotional and mental life. We have this near moron in charge in Washington...who follows the whims of the various hate groups that constitute his "base."
We have Osama and the radical Islamists, who offer Paradise through suicide and death...
HOW DID IT ALL GO SO WRONG...? AT THE DAWN OF OUR NEW TECHNOLOGICAL AGE WHICH BILL AND WARREN STARTED?
Perhaps, Bill and Warren should try to figure out how to restore meaning and mystery and a sense of common interest in the human race...and not merely obsess on "more stuff" and longer lives for people who have essentially lost the mystery and enchantment and wonder that sustained our ancestors for the millennia...
Indeed, before the suicide bomber and the hatemongers took over...and filled the deep void left by free trade and globalism's War of All Against All, and a science and technology that provides explanations of things...but not meaning.
