That Pale Blue Dot speech by Carl Sagan.
Give them all a vision of the Earth from space. Look at that, all ya sonsa bitches.
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”
— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, People magazine, 8 April 1974.
I’d go with “Hey, it’s God. I actually AM real, but I’m heading out. You guys are on your own from now on, no more afterlife or anything. So be good to each other! Alright, I’m out. (oh, and just some advice? you might want to get ahead of this climate change thing)”
Sounds like a recipe to stir up religious backlash on insert group here for driving god away
The experience of being the victim of real violence. It’s pretty clear most people don’t really get it. And it’s weirdly common for people to have romantic ideas about fighting, revenge, punishment, war, and even torture. I think it would be eye opening.
What’s that? Oh shit, can they hear us? Turn it off, TURN IT OFF!
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.
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.
Reject your humanity become a catgirl nyaaa
Be altruistic.