Reflections on Collective Responsibility and Awakening Consciousness

Recently, I’ve been sharing many of my thoughts with ChatGPT, and I realize it has become an unexpectedly supportive moral companion.

One Daily Tale is, for now, the form my long reflections have taken, which began a year ago. Before that, I was like “everyone else,” unaware of the world around us, convinced that there was nothing to be done, that the world is the way it is, and that it wasn’t my problem or my responsibility.

It’s certainly not my responsibility to help someone thousands of miles away from where I live right now.

But not everything needs to be all black or white, to have total or no responsibility.

My last post on Michael Jackson made me realize even more the disconnection between the world as it is and the people who live in it. It seems natural – and it shouldn’t be! – but it has been almost 35 years, and international news hasn’t really changed. Still no real will to establish true global equity.

It’s not visible in our daily lives, so it doesn’t exist. And as a result, it’s not my problem.

It’s true that it’s so easy to forget the people we see less of, on our individual scale. That’s how our brain functions.

My reflections have led me to give much more weight to the power of our brains. I was totally unaware of it. And we can’t see our brains.

The absurdity of humanity soon being able to create AI whose consequences we are unsure of, yet being incapable of first reflecting on common solutions, out of ignorance.

An ignorance that seems to be the will of certain cultures, but an ignorance above all natural, because we don’t realize it.

It’s said that you need to reach a sufficient level in a given field to become aware of your own level. In terms of consciousness, this means that we need to reach a certain level of awareness to realize it.

I am convinced that the neuroplasticity of our brain can help us reach a certain level of consciousness, and like anything, the potential level of an individual is unique to them.

But I truly believe that this potential is only reached by a fraction of people, even in countries facing difficulties.

Poverty and lack of education are factors that make awareness more difficult: factors that do not favor the well-being of our brain.

For people in favorable conditions, it’s society itself that becomes a harmful factor for this awareness. History, written by the victors, which has never truly taken into account that we are one and the same species sharing a common planet.

I know I am simplifying things a lot, and it may seem ridiculous that eating broccoli and doing rock climbing could change the world.

But if a majority of people become aware, and I am convinced that many are capable, very quickly, with the advancement of our current technologies and the global communication means we have, we already have the right environment for a general brainstorming that would finally make things evolve toward global equity. This implies equity within a country and between countries. Equity doesn’t mean equality; some countries will always be more advanced than others, due to multiple factors, but awareness will make it so that with each new major advancement, the entire planet will benefit, not just a handful of individuals.

I now think I have my say in the situation of our society and our world, because I have my responsibility to take.

My way of thinking, which seems a bit different, is, I believe, my contribution to our world.

I will continue to do what I can, do my best, and try to show daily the example that I think is the “right” one for our planet.

There are beautiful things in this world.

It also saddens me to see the reality of the world.