Philosophy

First World Crisis

The dilemma facing First World countries is more than an existential challenge, it is the first filter to national transcendence.

There is a base reality. First World countries do not touch it. Third world countries do. If a community in a third world country fails to work together, people die, communities die. Comparatively, First World countries are separated from real world consequences, giving them the luxury to build their house of cards upon abstractions. Turning a psychological term into a sociological one, First World Countries are essentially at the top of Maslow’s Pyramid. So why then are First World nations seeing epidemic rates of depression compared to Third World nations?

The Great Filter defines an almost insurmountable barrier that blocks intelligent life from conquering the universe. This concept is an abstraction that helps scientists cope with the perception of an empty universe.

The universe is not empty, but people who can’t see the forest because of the trees believe it to be so. Prior to the modern age, most people in the world had no problem with the idea of others, even if they were spiritual beings. It’s when nations forget their roots, loose touch with their mother planet that they start believing they’re…