My Fantasy World

"I dream of a world where fast food restaurants and shopping malls aren't the places to be on weekends."



So where should we be on the weekends? What distinguishes fast food from other forms of food, and why is this distinction valuable? What if I like the atmosphere of the mall?



Please answer without invoking pseudoscientific "health" and sociological studies.



"I dream of a world where children are not forced to sit in hard chairs, in stuffy buildings, being told how to think, what to believe, and what to do, 5 days a week for 7 hours a day when they should be outside playing in the dirt, or at least inside playing with toys."



Children are way too spoiled as it is; I can hardly think of how they'd be able to get their way MORE than they currently do. Being taught how to think, by the way, is one of the most important things in life, and without it, we wind up in messy liberal situations like our current one. Life is not a game -- it is a responsibility; we influence everyone around us merely by existing. Furthermore, there is no such thing as an "individual," so it would be preposterous to pretend that we can ever be free from influence. In fact, everything about you comes from somewhere else.



Why should we be having children in the first place, though? Do you want your child to rot away in a nursing home? Have you ever seen those places? What are you accomplishing by creating someone whose death -- and consummate suffering -- are guaranteed?



"I dream of a world where caking make-up on your face and torturing your hair with heat and styling products is not expected of women; a world where we don't have to wear these masks to feel comfortable leaving the house."



Fine, but if someone wishes to look a certain way, they should not be stopped, so long as their reasons are purely aesthetic, and not based on self-esteem, ego, or boosting social status.



"I dream of a world where parents can see that material items are not what their kids need from them; a world where this isn't at the top of the list; a world where family comes before career, and that's the norm."



What makes family members so much more important than the whole of sentient life? This an ignorant, subjective bias that not only hinders social progress, but distorts our perceptions of reality to the extent that we wind up basing our decisions on our emotions, rather than on anything rational. Can you see why promoting family exclusivity would foster group mentality, leading to all kinds of abhorrent social conflicts? Can you see why our emotions can only extend so far in terms of scope, and are detriments to rational understanding in the first place?



"I dream of a world where improving oneself does not mean climbing the corporate ladder."



I dream of a world where improving oneself is no loner a goal, as there would no longer be such neurotic emphasis on the individual. Improving the world in which we live would be our prime directive first and foremost, and everyone would acknowledge the trivial pursuit of arbitrarily 'bettering' oneself for what it is -- a finite, meaningless waste of time that promotes egomania.



"I dream of a world where young men and women aren't constantly bombarded with images of supermodels who make up a tiny percentage of the population, and led to think that this is what they are supposed to look like."



There are Ebola viruses, AIDS viruses, parasites, bone cancers, genocides, earthquakes, predators, brain cancers, and climate-based extinction events, and the worst thing that you can think to rebuke is inaccurate body image? Come on.



"I dream of a world where pro-lifers adopt unwanted children who have already been born instead of wasting time protesting in front of abortion clinics."



I dream of a world where "pro-lifers" wouldn't even exist, as it's a completely stupid position to take, and anything that obviously idiotic is a waste of time to be "tolerant" of.



"I dream of a world where people aren't dumbed down by television."



No one watches television anymore; it's been superseded by the Internet. If you don't want people to be dumbed down, then support the elimination of academia, representative democracy, our current media, the "traditional family," and popular culture.



The poster of the original story no longer frequents this site, so this will partially fall on deaf ears, but I've put it here for anyone else who may be more interested in reality than in clichéd "problems" that we apparently have to do everything in our power to fix -- all the while, "nature" continues its reckless imposition of suffering upon itself unabated.

I wish more people thought like you icygreen.

Great dream. Would be a wonderful world.