45 TRUE FREEDOM
The key to being mentally free is not to submit to any religious or political leader, instead listening to their ideas is acceptable, but we must only follow them to the extent that we believe is correct, because submitting to them without an impartial trial would mean loss of our mental freedom. There is also nothing wrong with listening to the beliefs of the prophets or philosophers, but we should only accept those that seem reasonable to us, because it makes no sense to assume that they are all necessarily true, because in the universe, there is no one who is not wrong to Sometimes, therefore, the key to perfection is to seek the truth without preconceived ideas. When we seek the truth we must look from the inside out, that is, we must use our own ability to analyze the things that surround us without submitting to any preconceived idea and without accepting the infallibility of anyone, be it this religious leader or president of a great nation. We must avoid with all our might becoming passionate about the myths of faith, or believing that the whole truth is held by a certain political party, because when we let ourselves be carried away by emotion and renounce doubt, we become the puppets that others wield. There are people or political parties who are right about some things but wrong about others, and with religious leaders, prophets or philosophers it is no different, and no one in the universe, no matter how superior, is infallible. It is true that there may be beings superior to us in the universe, but there is no one who can know everything.
The key to happiness is not based on being poor, but on seeking wealth without losing humility, that is to say that you have to try to progress in life but without being carried away by vanity, for that, it is necessary to take full advantage of everything that we have avoiding waste, because having a lot does not mean that we should waste what we have. A person who manages what he has with common sense, actually wins twice, once for what he wins at the beginning and twice for what he wins when he is responsible and does not waste anything. We must avoid opulence and waste, because in reality a person needs little to live, therefore, the most reasonable thing is to use that economic progress to live better, but avoiding doing absurd things such as buying huge houses to live few people, or throw away the new clothes. You have to progress but without losing your dignity, because material wealth does not guarantee happiness. Happiness is, therefore, the consequence of two things, on the one hand of economic progress and on the other of the sensible administration of that progress.
Since the beginning of time, the progress of science has allowed the quality of life to improve unceasingly, but this progress should not be an excuse to indulge in waste. We have an example in how today humans do not hesitate to destroy uranium atoms to produce energy without taking into account the serious danger that radioactivity represents for the environment. It also tries to destroy hydrogen atoms for the same reason, arguing that it needs more energy. He does not understand that in nature there is already an inexhaustible, clean and free energy that is solar in its many versions, and what is needed is to adapt to the limitations by better managing the energy that you already have to avoid waste. Proponents of nuclear energy from hydrogen claim that the world could keep up with it for several centuries, but what they do not understand is that if this energy were already available, then the level of energy consumption would multiply by a thousand, depleting the reserves of hydrogen in much less time than anticipated. This would not happen because new needs had been produced, but because by having a cheap energy source the population would end up wasting that energy on absurd things, because it is evident that there would be many people willing to go to dinner on the moon or at the opposite end of the world planet and go home to sleep. With this unconscious attitude, the human being behaves like a cancer cell that spreads without stopping destroying everything around it, it is not that it is bad to have more energy and use it in what we consider appropriate, what is absurd is the unconscious attitude that it has man towards the environment. But if it happened, that using natural and renewable energy the world is limited, then the best thing would be for it to adapt to these limitations and progress by developing the new vein that represents avoiding waste and the unproductive use of energy. Surely, the world of the future will be able to do the same things that we do today with only a minimal part of the energy that we use, and all as a result of good planning in the use of that energy.
Human behavior with regard to nuclear energy is an example of lack of control and little respect for the environment, because you can always get more solar energy with a little imagination, such as installing solar panels in space or taking advantage of the energy from volcanoes, waves or wind, because when it comes to achieving inexhaustible energy, one does not want to recognize that the energy of the sun and its derivatives already are, but if they do not recognize it, it is because they do not want to make sustainable use of energy or accept the limitations that this implies. It is absurd that international forums are proposing to apply a tax to the emission of greenhouse gases, but instead another is not created to penalize nuclear energy knowing how terrible its effects are when leaks occur, that shows that the human being continues to act out of materialistic and selfish interests and is unable to act thinking of the global good. It is necessary that humanity stops considering economic growth as the most important thing, and is replaced by the distribution of wealth, because progress also consists of eradicating poverty and social inequalities, what is the use of a country like the United States having A large per capita income if your streets are littered with beggars, that should also be a part of the politicians' agenda and not just commercial production.