The new society thread

[Antares]

I would say - forget resources and human numbers and learn about trust.

Everything can be a resource, if you think it through, even mental assets, even trust are resources.

Perhaps the biggest source of resources to watch in the new millenium is your own mind.

Human being is told that he or she differs from animals by having mind (sometimes reduced to "intellect"). But who is the one that really utilizes the minds of society? Is this really you? What do you know about the mind? Do you own it? How good your memory is, how much can you trust it? How much can you trust your own mind? Where are your thoughts being originally "produced"?

What is your mind and where is your memory? You cannot take your finger and point to where these are.

Learn to exceed your mental limitation and outreach your own mind, so that you may decide what and who controls you; avoid any new inventions that modify your original state: from plastic surgery to future genetic "improvements", and rather ask who decide about them and how they are applied; don't trust ads, nor safety ensurements - the history suggest that they would ensure you of the "safety" no matter what really the situation is. Think for yourself, if you have your own mind; trust is one of your own resources, unless you give it away to others, requiring from you "trust".
Who uses magic in the XXth or XXIth century? How many people? Is it some forgotten resource to manage, that people fear to reach?

See the point?

This is the mind economy: you manage your resources, or allow external "forces" to control them.

Otherwise, you'll join the puppet society trusting blindly your "freedom", having no right to decide what to think!

Genetically conditioned and psychologically controlled society in future? Some predict to be so in the "brave new world": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World