Knowledge is like a snowball rolled from the top of a snow covered mountain. It starts small but exponentially increases. In the last 30 years more information was processed than in the previous 5000 years. If humanity would recognize this reality, and devote more resources toward accumulation, use and dissemination of knowledge, we could accelerate the pace at which we reach a better world. In sum, a common effort toward a common goal will produce results.
Humanity needs a mission statement to guide it's efforts.
Utopia is the ultimate mission statement. A simple message, that covers all issues. If it happens to enough of us and if we accept it and have the courage to take our places in the righteous moments that await us, we and the world will thrive. I have come to believe that we are not born simply to take and to hold, but rather to give our best to the world in the brief time we have here. I see now that the first half of life is rightly devoted to gaining - knowledge, wisdom, place and security.