Hypothetically, if you want to make the world a better place, you should try to make it possible for people to get their own needs met legally and without hurting other people.
That's been a goal of my writing and I feel I have failed spectacularly and wasted my time pointlessly, though at least I don't seem to have hurt anyone.
I'm not really an idealist. I'm a pragmatist and to me that's a practical approach that governments should try to adopt, but they mostly don't seem to.
I look at Trump and think stuff like "He probably bombed Iran because it somehow makes him personally richer." Or "He probably invaded Venezuela to secure a steady supply of cocaine."Because I don't believe for one minute he's actually got any kind of political agenda -- I mean beyond trying to get the federal government to pass laws and make policies that help no-talent assholes born to wealth (like him) keep their money and get richer no matter how stupid, lazy and self indulgent they are.
Trump is probably not some bizarre extreme statistical outlier. Probably a high percentage of people in power are selfish assholes looking to intentionally misuse that power for personal gain while harming others.
I've spent a lot of years imagining myself as in the edutainment business and trying to figure out how to make a buck via blogging because I'm medically handicapped, not because I think I'm smarter than you, and I've mostly failing.
I desperately want to throw in the towel on this time wasting occupation of mine and figure out how to force my defective body into activities that actually pay the bills.
I genuinely don't think the world wants solutions. I don't know what it wants, but better solutions doesn't appear to be it.