Towards a World Full of Love

When we were kids, we were taught the rules. If we wanted to do well in life, you needed to go to college. If we want to go to college, we had to do well in school. So, we followed the rules. We put off what we wanted to do. We got the grades, the school, the job, but we’re still putting off something.

It starts small at first. Something peaked your interest there, but you let it go. Now, you’re here putting off 5 days of the week in prep for the weekend. The gnawing feeling of the thing you’ve been putting off your whole life starts to eat at you. Eventually, you examine your life and you see that this is essentially going to be the rest of your life. The thing you’ve been putting off comes full force, and you’re having an existential crisis. You start to wonder is this all there is to life?

If you looked around, you would see that there is no way out, but I am here to say that you're only half right. Where you are wrong is that what stands before us is an impasse, and the choice we really have to make is to either continue going forward on the path that leads to the same meaninglessness and drudgery or like many before us, we can choose the alternative path. People like Moses, George Washington, and Martin Luther King chose this path, and it worked out. The only issue is that this path must be paved, but what lies on the other side is a world full of love.

We need to start with the problem that gave rise to our current situation.

This is the problem. This is an image of what people thought school was going to be like in 100 years. As you can see, not much has changed. We are still sitting in desks with a teacher reading things out to us, and that’s the problem. We’re still doing the same thing we have done for the past 100 years, and we have not updated the system at all.

This inevitably leads to inefficiencies, which then leads to the problem that investing more money doesn’t lead to better results. Adjusted for inflation, costs have increased more than 24% across the different tuitions. We're spending more than we ever have and taking on more debt to sustain this system, but it's not working.

What we end up with is less money to invest in the expansion of the system which has led to the creation of a dual system where you have the Ivy Leagues, and then you have the normal universities. This creates winners and losers where if you get in an Ivy League, you have an abundance of opportunity, but if you’re in the normal system, then you don’t have as much opportunity. Over time, this breeds conflict and the growing conviction that higher education fails the majority. This shift is reflected in stark numbers: the perceived importance of higher education has fallen from 75% in 2010 to just 35% in 2025.

So, the system is in need of an update. The first place to start would be with the inefficiencies. Much of the inefficiencies come from how we are taught to learn which is through memorization. The problem with memorizing to learn is that we end up forgetting everything. It also doesn't even work in daily life. This is a giant sinkhole because you have to keep investing energy in repeating the same information over and over.

A better alternative would be to instead focus on building understanding. It's much more efficient even though it takes more effort in the short term, but over the long term, it compounds. Once you understand something, you can move onto the next thing. This lets you cover more ground because you don't have to keep going back. It also helps in building mastery which you can bring into new contexts. Unlike memorization, there is no limit to what you can understand.

The way to understand would be to create to learn. By creating, you're making variations in your memes which gives you the possibility that you might create a meme that is better. When you do, you can switch out your old meme, and in doing so, you have reached understanding. Check out this blog if you're interested in this.

Just removing the inefficiencies aren't enough to move towards a world full of love. In order to do that, another change must be made. That change is to take the system, turn it into code, and put it on the internet so that you can make infinite copies of it. This makes it possible so that instead of forcing every student to adapt to the system, every student will be given their own system that will adapt to them.

When you don't have to adapt to the system, it humanizes you. Rather than thinking about what the system wants, you can think about what you want. You can take risks, challenge yourself, and seek ever greater feedback which is the essence of meaning. And when you have everyone becoming into the uniqueness of their being, that is how we move towards a world full of love.