As a student who is graduating from college this May I hear you. I really wish people would appreciate life more; the most religious often seem to appreciate how amazing and awesome this life really is the least. But this Utopian world you and I wish for won't exist for a while. I really appreciate communication with others the most in this life. The level of communication we have today could not be achieved without technology, and technology can not exist without the labor that created it.

@bhouncy I hope that the world's food isn't created in some "quantum food making device" I love cooking actually, but I do hope that we in the very near future are able to provide enough food to feed the world. It really isn't infeasible to do tomorrow if we really dedicated ourselves.

Personally I'm skeptical of the notion that we are unable to escape "the system." The reality is that you need to teach your kids and yourself to be skeptical, passionate, and loving.

There's a lot of changes that need to be made both politically and culturally to facilitate the peace future we wish for, but it's making progress and we need to continue to support it.