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I read that poverty could be eliminated by 2025. It would require that everyone give just a little more. Well, a lot more. Think about it. No poverty and no wanting. It's more than a John Lennon song. Perhaps the best and most peaceful version of the future is Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek. Take away the Klingons, Romulans, and any hostile race and you would have an almost perfect utopian society. Do you think there is a grassroots society on the Enterprise? Probably not. I've always chosen the Gene Roddenberry mode of thinking in believing that humans help humans just for the sake of humanity. In his version of the future, every person is striving for perfection for the sake of knowledge and nothing more. Greed, power, and even money have been conquered themselves. We are one world. Now, I like to believe that it was his vision for that perfection and would probably be a boring story so, yep, you need conflict. Bring on the Klingons. In our world, and if we could incoporate Gene's future, we may still be alone in this universe however we would be together as one world. One race. "I have a dream." Hey, it was MLK day yesterday so I've got that unity feeling going on. Don't worry, it doesn't last long. In the end, I'd still want to plant a bullet in your brain.