Why don't we have flying cars? It's a choice. If we wanted to, we could build them. Same for climate change, world hunger, a pill to make you skinny, etc. Yes,

Why don't we have flying cars? It's a choice. If we wanted to, we could build them. Same for climate change, world hunger, a pill to make you skinny, etc. Yes, we can literally achieve anything if we "choose" to do so. So we chose not to. Or at least that's what this article seems to indicate. > Step one: Point out that it's a choice we are making. This has been pointed out a lot through history. But first you have to get past the ego-shattering realization that actually, it's not always a choice we are making. To make a choice, you have to have a choice. That is to say, multiple options. If you don't see multiple options, you effectively don't have a choice. Even if multiple options exist, if you aren't aware of them, then for practical purposes they don't exist. It took 2,250 years for a person to combine a pulley with a ratchet and make the first safety elevator. Before that, nobody had really considered safety to be a core function of an elevator. It was just an annoying problem that you had to accept. If somebody had realized they had a choice to make safety mandatory, and had also realized what the impact of that choice was, they would have discovered this method back in antiquity and we would have had something resembling skyscrapers for thousands of years. Imagine pyramids of workers, all shuttling up and down quickly and safely. Imagine the pyramids being built with elevators! > Step two: We really need to decide at an individual and collective level if this is how we want to live. Let's say I don't want to live without wings. Like, literal wings. Bird wings. According to this principle, all we have to do is decide that we want to live with wings, and we'll make it happen. But this goes back to the first step. Who the hell right now thinks that they have the choice to live with literal wings?? Who is sitting around going, "it's crazy that my arms aren't flappy" ?? Nobody is. You have to know you have the choice, and then you can maybe do something about it, once you figure out how, and deal with every obstacle in your way. And even then it's no guarantee. We achieved a plane that cruises at Mach 3.2. We don't have it anymore. We achieved electric cars (more of them than any other type) at the start of the 20th century, and they're making a comeback a century later. We've had cars that can drive through water for just as long, but you don't see many folks driving their Escalade across the lake to beat traffic. It's not so much that we can't or don't do a thing. Life is more complex than simply having or making a choice. Sometimes things just don't come together, for reasons. It's also kind of ridiculous that they're so obsessed with Clubhouse. You know what we called that back in my day? A conference call (or a party line).