Planned vs. Self-Emergent (cntd.) To be clear, I am not advocating anarchy here. On the contrary, I think, governments have significant roles to play in promoting original and creative individual lives to advance the prosperity of humanity as a whole. They could create large social environments that encourage original and creative individual lives. They could provide a certain level of security to all its citizens: no more necessary to fear potential bad outcomes, people would be more willing to live originally and creatively. Indeed, in places (Europe, for instance), where there are better public welfare systems, it also witnesses less people hanging on to God and more free and creative artistic activities. Schools, too, could set their educational agenda and build educational programs around assisting students further develop their internal traits/talents. And parents, instead of expecting their children to realize their own unrealized dreams or painting a blueprint of a secure life for them, should guide their children in their early development stage to get to know themselves and help them discover their internal traits and talents through close observations and experiments. For reasons discussed earlier, it is not very realistic to expect governments to fully commit to such roles. Schools are also much limited by the large societal settings. The prosperity of humanity, therefore, will depend more on a self-emergence process, that is, it is up to each human being (family too) to strive for an original self-emergent life.
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