Happy New Year 
…
my dear nieces of the Trillennium (Year
3000) 
Great Grandfather 
write this letter to you in the beginning of the year 2007.
I am using a computer to compose this “e-mail”, and
will publish it to global friends of my era via the internet, the most advanced technology of our world at
this time, which might be an obsolete technology 
in
your generation.
Anyway, you shall never look down on the internet. 
Because
of the internet, people in my generation are able to share knowledge that
eventually leads to the highly advanced technology 
of
the peaceful world where you can live without any social problems. 
Curently, it's
not like that, my dear kids. 
We
live with tons of social problems. So, since I am facing problems and know the social
problems of this time pretty well (at least I should know better than you who
live with none of them 
),
today I am gonna tell you about the social problems,
their effects, and their causes. Some problems might be so bad that you
couldn’t imagine how we could live with this situation. 
This
letter is to give you some knowledge about the problems, and to remind you
not to allow these problems to happen again. 
Since there are so many problems, I categorize problems by causes of
them.
1. Social problems
that happen because people don’t know good principle of living (dharma) to
keep in mind all the time
The main cause of the problems is that most people in the
current world don’t have the fundamental knowledge that “desire is the cause of sadness” (without desire one would be
free from sadness ) and “One is
happy when knowing one is doing reasonably good” . The world social don’t promote this simple knowledge to
everyone. In case of me, I have been living with desire and being confused with
many teachings for a long time before realizing this truth, which is not
emphasized by any world medias. 
Therefore, people in my generation are far from being
able to be happy all the time. Many problems happen because people follow their
desire instead of reasons. 
They are searching for happiness that depends
on acquiring something. Few people search for true knowledge (facts
of nature), since many of us are told to believe, not to prove with reasoning. 
Oh, my kids. You know? The world these days is so much
different from yours. There are so many religions, not just one World Religion (or Human Dharma) like yours.
Most religions try to teach religious believes, rather than teaching on how to
practice reasoning. They make people aim to live well after death or live well
in next incarnation, instead of emphasizing on the simple knowledge “No Desire = No Sadness”, “Be Rational = Be Happy”, which can make one
become happy at any moment. There are so many religious activities
that don’t enhance knowledge, but emphasize on following unreasonable
principles. 
Some religions told believers to believe in God. They
told people that "you don’t need reasons to believe in God". “All you
need is belief.” …. Oh!! Why
don’t they know that “belief” can be made up in human mind? Many wars happened because people of different religions
believe differently. It’s very sad that people decide not to change any ancient
teachings. 
They don’t realize that the teachings are knowledge as of
that time, and should be updated with current knowledge for more truth. They trust ancient knowledge more than up-to-date
knowledge.
Because people are taught to believe in religions, they don’t know how to be rational. They
don’t realize that the cause of sadness is desire. They don’t realize that the
result of doing good is happiness. Some people, who
are told to be satisfied with everything, just live without doing anything
except breathing. 
Some people who follow desire do many bad things to
fulfill their unlimited desire. 
Believes and desire are being promoted a lot more than
truth (knowledge). It’s unlike your era, that kids are
taught to understand Human Dharma,
which is the knowledge derived from up-to-date
agreement of majority of the whole world.
Now, I think you should have understood the main cause of
all the problems. You will not be surprised to hear other problems that I will
tell you further. By the way, don’t forget that you should not immediately
believe that what I say is absolutely true. 
Use your reasoning and knowledge to consider it.
2. Problems
because the world is separated into countries
This is another major cause of other problems. The world in my era
is separated into countries. 
Human beings these days are like other animals… we also live in flocks (countries). We don’t have true
cooperation among all human beings in our world. Humans are taught to compete rather than to cooperate. People in each country think they would live well if they are
superior to other countries. Misunderstanding is in both the leaders and the
people. They try to make their country rich, even with compensation of poverty
in other countries. They are pleased with victory, without realizing the truth
that problems in other countries in the same world would cause them trouble
somehow. 
Some people in some countries are proud that they live in
the “Developed Country”. People in the “Developing Country” are proud that at
least they are better than people in the “Undeveloped
Countries”. So pitiful ! 
… They all feel no guilty of leaving the world become “Undeveloped World”, (the World without
Cooperation, Peace, Freedom,
One big problem from having countries is war. There have been many wars and disputation between (or
among) countries in the world. The war has destroyed many things people in the
past have built and developed. Wars have killed trust between countries. Wars
made countries spend a lot of human & natural resources to intrude others,
to protect themselves, and even to show off. Wars almost have destroyed the whole planet before your
generation could come to earth.
Since the world still support country existence. Some
leaders of minorities also want to have their own countries. Most fightings these days are fightings
within the country. Terrorists
and civil wars are enormous. Many lives have
lost. The world waste much time and resources to solve these problems. 
However, very few people have mentioned the “United World”. And there’s no
discussion on this issue at all in international meetings. We are losing a lot, but most people don’t realize this. The
world is supposed to be developed a lot more if only there’s no countries.
Actually you might have learned that the world used to be
divided into countries. But probably you don’t understand why it took us so
much time before everyone in the world agrees to unify all countries to be
one. I will explain to you with my knowledge.
People are lack of understanding that we all are human
beings, and the whole world supports our living. People are taught to love only
people in the same country and to cherish only land of their country. People
are taught to think their country needs to be superior to other countries in
order to have better living. People have never known that the world could be unified. It’s very hard for them to open their mind to the
idea of world unification … which they think it might bring them a lot
more problems from other countries, in addition to many existing problems in
the country. 
People never realize how much the world would be
developed and how many problems will be solved if all countries in the world
become one. They never realize that the earth allows them to live anywhere
on earth, but we just block ourselves from traveling freely around the world.
Did you know? People in my generation have to acquire “Visa” on their
“Passport” in order to enter a foreign country.
This idea, “United World”, is judged to be impossible.
But I know that if we can make everyone
understand all the benefits of world unification and all the disadvantages of
having countries, the world will be unified. Other problems will be
solved efficiently from then on. Everyone will be peaceful.
3. Problems because people do for oneself, not social
Many social problems happen because people don’t really understand the nature
of social, that “we can live happily if the
social is good”, and “we are affected
by the social problems”. Few people are taught to understand this. Many
people believe that one can live well if one is superior to others. Thus they
try to make benefit to oneself without consideration whether that would cause
social problems or not. 
They can do even something illegal for their benefit,
hoping only they would not get caught. Some people who always follow the laws
see this as “it’s not my duty to solve”, or they don’t know what they can do to solve the
problems. People see the problems as something normal. Therefore, the world is not truly safe to live. We
are all at risk to face crimes.
Some examples of social problems of this cause are : robbery (Oh! So bad.
If I have forgotten some money somewhere, it’s much
likely that someone will take it), corruption (Ah! How come people want
something that’s not suppose to be theirs? 
), rape (It makes girls live with so much unsafe
feeling.), air pollution (People want convenience, without
considering the environment. Some technologies destroy the earth’s
atmosphere.), water pollution, waste, natural resources
destruction, etc.
4. Problems because people think “Money” can buy everything
Many people in my generation see money more
important than anything. They think money can buy everything… money can buy
happiness. They don’t care how to get money. Many people are willing to do
anything wrong in order to get money. The market is mixed with good money and
bad money. People with much money are supposed to be considered as
ones who do many good things to social, but it’s not like that. They can be
rich because they have taken advantage over the social. Many people have never thought that their money is already enough.
Money has never been enough for everybody. Many people follow their desire, and
spend more money than what they have. Thus many problems arise.
Examples of problems from this cause are : crimes,
killings, assassination (It’s very easy to get killed in some
societies.), gambling (so many kinds of them), drugs (both legal
and illegal), discrimination, cheating of sellers and buyers,
etc. All these problems affect living of everyone in the social. 
5. Problems from improper work
In this era, we have to work for about 8 hours per day. So
much, right? Somebody even work more than that. Work environment is serious.
People don’t realize the importance of being happy all
the time. Most workers follow the desire, and work seriously … to get money
from work (though some may work not for money, but for the worth of
work). All the work, whether it’s governmental or non-governmental or even some
personal work, is not so much fun. Unlike yours, my kids.
Some work we do, you might wonder why people do it and become stressful with it, while the
fact is that it doesn’t make the social become any better. ….. Kids, those people do for money, or for something
they misunderstood it would bring good things to happen to them. The workers
are quite pitiful. Despite knowing the work is not good, they still have to do
it because it’s the social system.
Generally, people are taught that one who has a work is one
who’s employed and get salary. This is a big misunderstanding. Some paid
work may have nothing for workers to do, or nothing
good to do, or even cause problems to social. It just serves desire of people. The work that someone does it voluntarily without
payment, but highly beneficial to the social, is seen as worthless. The payment
for people is also unfair. Some easy jobs get paid so high, some hard work get
paid so little.
The work of the world …. hmm too
big . Let’s say, work in a country is not well managed. There
are many redundant works. We don’t share output from our work. We all would
live with much easier lives if people work collaboratively.
There are many unnecessary works. Even worse, some works
can be called bad works. Workers who do these
works should realize the truth by themself, if they are
truly reasonable, and give priority to the whole social, not money.
6. Problems from lying
Many people like to lie. They have an excuse for themselves
to lie. The excuse is also a lie, lying to oneself. It’s hard for people to
find the truth (true reason) if they decide to avoid problems with lying. People don’t realize the value of being open, and
don’t realize the bad effects of hiding. Some people may lie so that
they can get anything they want, or just lie to make them look good. People who
lie can’t be pride of oneself. Once people learn to lie, they will get addicted to
lying. They will solve (avoid) problems with lying. That makes the social
becomes lack of trust. Many teachings have taught people not to lie. But people
still do it.
I am so glad that people in your generation perceive the
value of truth and the badness of lying or hiding. Thus you kids never want to
lie, and always tell the truth.
7. The problem of lacking access to information and knowledge.
The information and knowledge are also incorrect or outdated.
The technology in our era is not so good. However, we also have to blame
ourselves for not using the technology to its highest efficiency.
About technology, our internet system is not globally
available. The free global-coverage wireless
internet has not been considered. Information sharing is seen as less
important than money. Thus we are unable to do many things that require
cooperation of everyone via the internet.
About people, many people in my generation don’t like to
learn, don’t like to think, don’t like to use
reasoning. Few people see internet as a good
source of information, while many see it as a tool for entertainment.
Many organizations that work for data collection only aim to complete the work,
without much consideration of data accuracy. It’s somehow impossible to get
accurate and updated data when there is so much data to collect. People
don’t realize that this work could be much easier, more accurate, and really
up-to-date if we let everyone involves in data collection. If the
governments pay for their people to collect data it would be beneficial not
only for completion of data but also for enhancement of computer skill to all
the people.
Since true knowledge is hard to access, some people
use wrong knowledge (lie) to lure other people for their benefit (for example,
to sell some products.)
Now I can only dream of the future world in
your era when everyone is responsible and capable to serve data and knowledge
for the world.
8. The problems from inequality
Despite written down in laws of most countries that everyone is equal, but the
fact is that we live unequally.
That’s due mainly to great differences in financial
status, social status, and education. Though the situation has been much
better than in the past, the differences is still
remarkable.
What happens these days is that poor people from rural
areas have to live poorly. They might come to cities to work as labors. Their
kids might be taken care by schools, but no one takes care of them. They are
left illiterate so that they can’t be anything else but a labor. They are looked down by high-society people even
though they work harder. They are treated poorly in all aspects. The world
seems to be unfair for them.
Rich or high social status people
live much higher than general people. They have special
food, special palace, or even special language for people to use with them.
They also have priorities on using public roads and other facilities. Some of them own so much land, while some poor people
don't own even a piece of land.
9. Problems because laws is above rational.
Laws made from some knowledgeable people. However, some laws can have defect.
Some laws may not be truly reasonable, due to lack of knowledge at that time,
or to injustice of those who make laws. In
court, people cannot raise a reason to oppose the laws. One might have
to lie to comply with the laws so that he is not guilty. (Though
he might feel guilty.)
Laws is like disciplines. They tend to give people commands without reasons.
People don’t have to think why that’s legal or why that’s illegal. Probably
they don’t even know the laws until they break the laws. With laws,
government gives commands to people rather than knowledge and understanding.
If only the government make people know what’s right and
wrong and why they are so, people will voluntarily refrain themselves from
doing bad things. Nothing can control people more effectively and
fruitfully than their own minds.
Some laws are written as if not for implementation. They become tools for bad officers to ask for money
from people. Law is not for social that lives with love. Loving community would give people knowledge rather than
commands.
So!!, be happy that you live in
the world that gives the highest priority to reasoning and knowledge, my kids.
10. We live without true freedom.
Not to mention the lack of freedom to travel freely all around the world, we
live in the social with limitation of freedom to do at will. Many constitution laws say that everyone has freedom,
but the fact is not like that. There is so many social laws
or rules that prohibit us from doing many things. We can’t dress as we like, we can’t act strange than
others, we can’t …. Most people support social custom rather than creativity. I’ve gotta admit that most
of us might be stupid that we follow unreasonable rules. Hmmm … seems like the rich people are more stupid, since they
have more social rules than general people.
Kids are grown up with much limitation of freedom. Parents
prohibit kids from doing things instead of giving them
reasons, and allowing them to judge and learn by themself.
Some kids do bad things just to ask for freedom.
Well, even me that don’t care many social rules still
feel stressful from the rules. I can’t do or say many things that I think I
should do or try. It’s not a very enjoyable life, my dear kids. Oh… I need Freedom … FREEDOM ……
Some freedom is not blocked by social custom, but by social's
dark power. Something good can't be done freely or peacefully if it
would annoy the powerful men in the social.
11. Problems from misbelief that bad people have incurable evil-minds.
Another misunderstanding of people in my generation is that they think people
who do bad things are bad people, who are bad from their blood. The so-called bad people are always seen bad in others’ eyes. There’s no way to make them good, since
they are born as bad people. Oh… that is not
true, my dear kids.
People don’t realize that everyone can
be good people who do only good things. All we need is
just to teach everyone to remind oneself regularly not to follow desire, and
give them knowledge of good and reasonable things to do. As a normal human
being, absolutely, we all can refrain oneself from following desire, and
learn reasonable knowledge from others in the social. At this moment it might be hard to imagine that
everyone can be like that, because most people in the world don’t know the
truth… don’t use reasoning. As I said in the
topic No. 1, people don’t have Dharma to keep. The social keeps teaching
people to believe in old principles, … in god, angels,
king, nation, money, oneself, richness, technology, selfish love, materials,
etc. What many people these days keep in mind is not dharma,
but only desire or believes.
The "good" people don't blame themselves for
not giving knowledge to the "bad" people so that they know what is
bad, and able to stop desire to do bad things. People that do bad things are blamed and treated with
hatred, not love. Hatred spreads, but love
diminishes.
Oh! Boys & girls, people in my generation spend a
lot for security system and devices. But we spend so little to teach all people
to become good people. Hmm!! They still don’t have good principle (dharma)
to teach people. …. Oh… When will they realize the fundamental dharma that
people should keep in mind all the time for eternal happiness
::: “Be Satisfied” and “Do Good (by reasoning & knowledge)” ?
Without Dharma, even good people can do a bad thing if
they become angry, for example.
12. Problems because the social and governments don’t take good care of their
people.
Many people these days only think kids should be taught from their parents.
It’s the duty of parents to make kids be good people..
How can it be so?? Some parents don’t even know what’s good, what’s
bad. It’s supposed to be a
function of social to teach people to be good… However, since the
social is also not very good … some kids might take good points, some might
take bad points. Schools also can’t make kids become good people. School can
give only technical knowledge. Teachers still follow desire, so kids have never
been taught to stop desire.
It’s the fault of social, the fault
that everyone is responsible. Most people like
to blame others, blame governments, blame the parents, blame
the kids. Very few people would blame themselves for doing nothing.
There are medias like TVs and
radios that can bring knowledge to people, but most of their programs are
dramas, game shows, and commercials that enhance people’s desire. Then everyone is busy working for money to fulfill the
desire. Someone is in debt because of the desire. There’s
no social security that everyone would be provided with basic needs for living,
such as food, medication, shelter, clothes, etc. The world don't live with love as if we are in the same family.
People live with uncertainty that they would become jobless someday and have no
money to buy food.
Moreover, it’s like the social is unfair to everyone.
Rich people do easy work but get paid so high, while poor people do hard work
and get paid so low. This makes it hard for people to believe that if the
social is good, everyone’s life will be good.
13. (The last one as I can think of) Problems
because people misunderstand “LOVE”
“Love” makes many people become crazy. Crazy lovers commit many
crimes, many killings, many cheatings, many suicides, many lies, many drunks, … many problems.
That’s because people mistake “love”
with “desire”. Many people in my generation follow
their desire to get a lover. They don’t realize that all desire should be
stopped… So they don’t realize that what they call “love” is actually
“desire”. Love and desire are totally
different. Love is a good feeling that a person have
on someone. Love is a feeling opposite to “hate”. With hate, one can
harm the person. With love, one can do for the person. But to do for oneself is
desire, not love. Love is not to take, but to give.
Love is a precious emotion of human beings, but someone
makes it becomes a bad word. We all should
love all the others. With love, one will be pleased, the others will
also be happy.
That’s all the 13 causes of the so-many social problems I am facing. Are you
feeling happy that you don’t live in my generation!
To give you some conclusion to causes of all the social
problems, the world social these days encourages desire,
while enhances little true knowledge to people. People desire for money, high
social status, education, entertainment, beauty, love, special food, travelling, a better hourse, sex,
drugs, etc. People are lack of knowledge that the world should be unified, everyone is responsible for
social, reasoning can give truth, belief can be made up in one's mind, love is
not desire, everyone in the world can be good people, we should (and we can) be
happy all the time,
we should always smile to others, desire and
happiness can't be together at the same time, etc.
The desire and the lack of knowledge
make everyone have different goals of their lives, ....
the goals that only someone can achieve. Such the
goals are, for example: "to be rich", "to be powerful", "to
be the president", "to win all the elections", "to get
the highest score in class", "to be a superstar",
"to beat someone", etc. If everone
aims for the same major goal ==> the peaceful world , we all will be able to reach the goal. And that will
bring eternal happiness to everyone.
By the way, I might have been exaggerating somehow about the problems.
Things are not so bad. At least I am living quite well, and I've known many
nice people.
My kids, you shall realize that you would not be able to live so comfortably
and enjoyably like that if not because of some good people in my generation,
who try to make great changes to the world to solve these problems by forwarding this e-mail until it reach most people on
earth and make them realize the truth. This is the turning point that
makes people stop desire and believes. Everyone
starts to love all the others. Later we all realize that the most
effective way to live together on earth is to have only one country. So we
decide to unify all countries together and become the “United World”.
Ha ha.. That was only my imagination. However, despite facing
many obstacles, I am still very hopeful that someday ... I will feel proud that
the big change of our world … “United World” will be true for the first time in
my generation…. Whoopee!
Lastly, I hope you will take good care of the civilized and
developed world: The world that everyone loves the others. The world with no wars. The world that has
no crimes. The world that comprises of only good
people. The world that everyone shares knowledge.
The world of knowledge warehouse that everyone can access.
The world that is advanced in technology. The world
that is capable to prevent natural hazards. The world that
knows the nature very well.
Your
Great Grandfather …..