Looking Forward by Kenneth Jr. (reading diary .txt) 📕

and economic changes upon which so much of our happiness depends, our guiding philosophy seems to be, “Don’t rock the boat.” Well, the boat is rocking, and it’s going to remain rocking for a long time. The only way to stop the boat from rocking is to use the scientific method of thinking to guide us to social inventions that really work.

No one today has all the answers—or even the questions. But by means of careful experimentation and measurement of results, we can eventually determine what political, economic, and social changes will give humanity freedom from war and want and will enable all people to live a more satisfying life.

For the first time in the history of man we can redesign both ourselves and our entire environment! By manipulating our genes, we will be able to change the structure and function of our bodily organs in almost any way that we desire. With a cybernated technology based on nuclear power, we can redesign our living areas, our cities, and our planet. And even the sky is not the limit. Eventually, the mind of a man might profoundly change the planets of our solar system. Our galaxy and possibly the nebulae beyond may feel our touch. Our only limitations are our intelligence and our creative imagination. Man may now control his destiny!

Every intelligent citizen on this globe should be pondering these uncharted seas on which the ship of humanity is now plunging ahead at full speed. Like Columbus, who set out on a daring voyage about a half-millennium ago, we have only a few scraps of information plus our scientific and humanistic intelligence to guide us. We must use these to the best of our ability to avoid the hell of atomic war. We must somehow land ourselves on a new shore where men and women may find themselves, where blighted personality development will become the exception rather than the norm, where man’s inhumanity to man will be unknown, and where wars and want will be but a distant memory. Only then will the spirit of man soar to its full, wonderful potential.