i understand what heartcore says.
i don't belive that there's a reason for everything, but you sure can find reasons if you want. let's say we have the goal as a species to overcome ourselves and to "be love", as you often post. it is indeed the ultimate goal, and the knowledge one must have to fully understand that state is a thing that many people will not even grasp.
now, let's see the real people in the outside world. the people that don't do drugs, and the people that work, and have a family and the people that ARE what they have been taught. will those people trade all of it to be love ? or even to have an ego death ?
in my profession, i have an IMMENSE contact with the "regular crowd" (like common people), and i can bet my own life that if they wouldn't like to experience an ego death. now imagine if they would trade the money that interplanetary expeditions (like mines, prisions, new animals, etc, etc) would give. if our planet is small and we are "few", and the differences between rich people and poor people are so many, now imagine if we grow 100000%. and i'm not talking about europe. look at somalia, ruanda, brasil, indonesia, sri lanka, india, china, even russia or even my own country, portugal, which is supposed to be a "evoluted" country, has many people starving. i know plenty of them. i live in one of the most remote regions of it, and i was born in the poorer region. people don't want spirit group. people don't want knowledge. they want to have fun, earn some money and fuck a lot.
i understand what you say and i respect it. fun for me is being alone and writing. fun is having a paradigm shift. i would love to one day wake up and see that the world was a beautiful place, with order, future and love. what i see is a chaotic, uninteresting and hateful world. i try to change this, i really do. i try to give some order, say things that might get people into thinking, try just to hug, kiss and be friendly to people. you know what happened ? i got sued. now tell me that i should belive in people. tell me that i should go on and preach from the highest mountain that humankind is one, and the more people that we add to it, the result will always be one. because we understand each other, because we feel for each other, and because i breath when you can't.
and don't think that i hate mankind. i'm just uninterested, ignorant and forgetful they exist.
but i have a question for all of the positive people. until now, many religions and many thinkers say that "the happiness is to come in the other world" (or anything like that). the earliest philosophers, like Anaxágoras, Anaximandro, Tales de Mileto (i don't know this names in english, sorry) from greece say that they had the same problems we do (material people vs. spiritual people, rationalism vs. empirism, etc). plato says the same, even to a bigger degree...he speaks about fascism, communism and so on in "the republic". we are on the same step now. no more, no less. the only difference is that we have more things to keep us blind. the proper question is this: when will it change ?
i am always open to answers.