symptoms of what was wrong

You’ve solved some of the

symptoms of what was wrong with

the world, but you haven’t fixed

the underlying problems.

You set

out to dismantle the Jerk Factory,

but all you did was set up a bunch

of Jerk Traps. You set out to

reform the culture, but you created

a culture of fear.

You became the problem. You

turned into the very thing you’re

trying to prevent. You prevented

war by waging war. You prevented

poverty by taking from those with

abundance. You made such heavyhanded

laws to prevent crime

that the laws themselves became

crimes against your people. You

couldn’t allow freedom, because

freedom begets the problems

you’re trying to solve. And you

certainly failed to put an end to

hate, because your people not only

still hate each other, they now also

hate you.

How do you maintain world

peace? How do you maintain

ethical business practices? How do

you maintain any social system?

By control.

But you can’t fix the world by

controlling it.

The problem runs deeper than

social systems. But where else

could it be?

Wish #3

Wish #1 was “Get rid of all the

jerks.” That failed. Wish #2 was

“Make me world dictator.” That

failed, too. You still have Wish #3

- what are you going to wish for

now?

We’ll tell you what we would wish

for. But first, we’ll need to look at

something invisible.

The problem with the world

wasn’t with the people themselves,

and it wasn’t with the culture or

social systems. So what does that

leave? Nothing? Or maybe an

invisible something...