If you found out that the Christian God was real, and all the things in the Bible were true, would you change your behavior? What if, instead, you found out you are in The Matrix, and you could take a pill to escape to the real world?
I suspect that such revelations would instantly change your values and actions. You would know that the concerns of this universe are less important than the bigger Universe[1] that contains it.
Currently, we don’t have any such revelations, so most people align themselves with the smaller universe. They value smaller values, and act toward smaller goals.
In this post, I will argue that we ought to... (read 1312 more words →)