AndreyAsimowIf you could plant a single thought in the minds of everyone on Earth simultaneously, what thought would you choose to share?
Everyone! I am Son Goku and I need your energy to defeat Majin Buu!
MothraLol as a kid me and my sister raised our hands to the ceiling to give goku our chi in solidarity, while watching tv.
I’m pretty sure if I hear this in my head, today, as an adult, I’d do it again. No questions asked
PerogiBoiHonk honk it’s the goose
Global çonfusion is imminent.
foggyCan you imagine the amazing headlines.
“City Agrees Spirit Spoke To Them; Was A Goose”
I think the only thing that can save humanity from the brink of climate collapse is one rowdy goose
I would watch this film.
Honk u very much
netburnrBe friendly to someone today.
Hear me out first.
‘Gender critical’ theory. Everyone should have this theory, as originally defined, planted in their head. Men would only associate ‘masculinity’ with their role in providing semen for procreation. Women would only associate ‘femininity’ with their role in providing eggs for procreation.
There would be no gender-non-conformity because there would be no ideas about gender to conform to. A minority of men would, as an everyday thing, wear dresses. It would be impossible to verify that someone was a woman or not (short of x-raying their uterus).
The important thing, is that if this happened, the people currently claiming that they’re ‘gender critical’ would lose their freaking minds.
This… sounds very distopian.
Humans on earth would provide their recreational organs to a common cause.
There would be no physical sex (if I am right about what you wrote).
Freaky
Ha, no, I didn’t mean it like that. The ‘role of providing semen’ and the ‘role of providing eggs’ would be during normal intercourse.
It’s wild how threatening people find this idea. I really can’t get understand why it is so hard to just imagine seeing each person as an individual. No one is walking around driving the world a priori into “hockey fans or not” and thinking our society would collapse of if you couldn’t do that all of a sudden.
Could material for a novel.
So many relationships would fall apart, so many others would be possible were yesterday they were unthinkable.
So many people would completely lose their identity. And so many others would suddenly feel at peace.
Marketing is completely upended. What even is sexy anymore? To whom and why and how do we even know?
Clothing designers, some will thrive when suddenly it feels as if there are no rules, like you can do anything. Others lose it all together, having no idea what to do.
At the same time, people need to sort people. So I foresee a rise in racism, ageism and other discrimination to maintain largely the same in and out groups. But those first weeks of absolute mayhem that noone understands why it’s suddenly mayhem would be beautiful.
You feel that given such an amazing opportunity, that is the single most important issue on the planet?
We’re doomed.
You’re reframing OP’s question. There’s no suggestion that I’m the only one with this opportunity - I’m relying on others to plant ideas about the climate or whatever, and focusing on what maybe other people haven’t already said (which is a good strategy for posting on Lemmy, incidentally).
But if that’s your genuine criticism, that what I posted can’t be ranked as the most important thing, well there’s plenty of other posts that you should be busy responding to.
Don’t be a dick
Clear message is sometimes the best.
Used to have this as the only rule for my Discord server, and it obviously wasn’t clear enough for people to get.
Problem with that is that many people are being dicks while thinking that they are not being dicks.
Stop buying things
richieadlerPeople die of starvation.
DeeIt’s like a Midwestern word for surprise or exclamation, commonly used in place of “whoops” or even “oh”. It’s also common in Canada from my understanding. Somebody from lemmy.ca feel free to correct me there.
We are in a climate emergency that must be drastically dealt with immediately.
Pandantic [they/them]This is my choice as well.
Fried_out_KombiI might even go so far as plant a few policies in their heads. “We are in a climate emergency, and we should address it immediately with policies such as carbon tax-and-dividend, ending subsidies for harmful industries such as fossil fuels and industrial agriculture, investing in both established and promising renewable energy sources such as solar and wind and tidal and geothermal, reducing our dependence on cars with more electrified public transport and denser urban design, and encouraging better urban land use patterns with land value taxes.” One sentence = one thought, right?
I’m not sure that just putting the message in their heads would make them actually do it. I feel like the (American) right wing party would just start campaigning with “The commie liberals are using Jewish space lasers to plant their eco hoax in our brains! We must vote the out before they use it to turn your children trans!!!”
Could you slip in a mention for biosphere collapse too?
“Aspire to be Jessica Rabbit.”
I wanna see what happens.
Like everyone? Males and females as well?
Yes. Especially in countries that have never heard of the character.
Helix 🧬I aspire myself to be in Jessica Rabbit.
BlizzardThose derp eyes lol
Buy a as much of xyz stock as possible. Plant thought “buy xyz stock”.
“The purpose of your life is to make others happy”
Put that in the head of all the ‘players’.
Instant misery for everybody as nobody would be able to take care of themselves.
Ahh, but if I die of starvation, I can’t very well make people happy, now can I? Assuming everyone followed the thought’s direction, the way to best make people happy is for me to live a healthy and long life, probably. (Of course, it’d be up to each individual to determine how to best make other people happy)
theneverfoxHow does that follow?
Your purpose is to make others happy == sacrifice your well being
When you only live to make others happy, you disregard your needs by putting others first. That ends affecting your well being. Your whole personality turns into service and you are easily exploited and abused.
“the purpose of your life is to make others happy”
No one said anything about only. My purpose is to build new things. I eat, sleep, and interact with others in an attempt to put myself in my best condition - this is no different.
Ignoring self-maintenance is against any purpose but sacrifice
“BE KIND”
REWIND
Seize the means of production
It’s not a thought but I would put empathy
I’ve been saying for a while that if I could, I’d increase baseline human empathy by 50% or enough to raise its minimum value to current baseline if they have less than 50% of baseline to start with, all up to a maximum of triple baseline levels. Enough to make the world a much better place, but not enough to make millions of people mentally ill or otherwise do more harm than good.
I’d consider anyone suffering negative side effects to be acceptable casualties.
I am Lord Vishnu. I am your God
Just to see what happens.
The irresistible urge to consume at least one billionaire. They would think that if they don’t eat a billionaire they would die. Hilarity would ensue.
Doesn’t have to be a billionaire. Anyone worth more than 5 millions is ok as well.
That’s a bit low. 5 million is low enough that it could still be made through the fruits of their own labour if they’re in a high paying industry. Would probably have to be $50M+ before you get exclusively the capitalist class.
Nah, gotta set the bar a bit higher. Maybe net worth of 10b+.
And the thought should be that you feel like you would die if they aren’t eaten.
“Eating billionaires is the secret to eternal youth, life, and health.”
WashedOverSome would say Love is always the answer for everything. I think that would be a higher state for many. At the very least kindness.
“MothBookkeeper is the dictator of the world, and I completely trust his decisions.”
Nevermind the logistics of that; power lives where people believe it does.
Then I could make multiple beneficial changes, such as:
- Heavily taxing the rich
- Enacting drastic climate policy
- Banning paper stickers that rip as you try to take them off
- Sending Mitch McConnell on a rocket into the sun
Considering our names start similar and that you going to do something about stickers that rip off, I give you my support
I also choose this man’s Moth
That’s it, you’re president. You have my support lol.