The ship

Modern states, in my opinion, are so outdated that they are like rusty ships, which are being eroded day by day by the salty ocean of global economic progress. Everything would be fine, but fuel tanks pour out into the ocean every day, pollute the sea and poison the local inhabitants.

Attempts to improve states are like patching up rusted holes on a sinking ship and patching them in one place, the hole manifests itself in another. It can stay afloat for a long time, relying on the manual labor of those who will pump out water in the hold. All tex, who, in order not to drown, will work with a pump or manually draw water overboard. Watching both captain and company ordertime having fun somewhere in the cabins occasionally going down and watching with a preoccupied look at work. 

Those who understand this process are already beginning to tear off parts of the ship, using them as a raft, or sailing with them to another in order to adapt them there. Not enough for all parts. Patching and making these parts is always harder and longer than tearing them off. The solution to problems with the state, I see not in the repair of what has long been falling apart under the weight of many monkeys hanging on various pieces of the ship. Even if you manage to throw them all into the sea, it will be even more difficult to deal with what is left, fixing it so that at least there are people on it at the helm, and not the same monkeys again.

For me, the place for such an old ship in the museum of history, and the monkeys hanging on it in the zoo, however, can be combined. Shielding them from all other people with bulletproof glass. Let them have fun on their ship, behind the glass, without posing a danger to other normal people.

Our task is to build a new ship that is resistant to economic storms and does not harm the environment. One on which you can sail for an arbitrarily long time, even on the earth’s sea, even on the endless ocean of our space. What we need is not a simple one, but a spaceship capable of being autonomous indefinitely in the endless expanses of space.

Starting with the creation of a project for this more advanced ship, we should not only review the shortcomings of the previous one, but also supplement it with new functions and, accordingly, give new responsibility to those who will perform this function. As you know, you can’t leave the ship anywhere, and we have no choice. We either go into the abyss with the old ship, or hard labor, being its pump and oars, keep the old ship afloat, or we will create a new one, becoming its skin, fuel, engine, navigator and helm.

All these parts are ourselves – people who understood the essence of the new ship and saw their purpose in it. Each member of the team must become a perfect instrument capable of achieving the goal set for him. Everyone should be able to reliably do their job. Everyone must be in perfect shape so that the ship itself has an attractive appearance.

Its passengers may not have all these qualities, but they are passengers, to enjoy the life that is given to them, that the best few who are able to provide and try to do.

Such an ending sounds strange, but only at first glance. After all, in order to survive, sooner or later you will have to become a tool in someone’s hands, and if you are independent, you already have such a tool.

In that case, what are you creating? What purpose are you serving? Apart from their own reproduction, what purpose will your children serve? If you are doing well on your own, is the overall situation reliable enough? An excellent sailor or even a crew is not able to keep the ship out of trouble if the course is laid incorrectly or nowhere.