Elon Musk

So I think unless people have a sense of optimism and purpose about the future, suicide might be just what happens.

Like having a child is an act of optimism about the future.

So if you're not optimistic, yeah.

So I think we need to maybe give people a sense of optimism and excitement about the future.

And I believe that the future will be better than the past.

And they'll be more interested in having kids.

Yeah, I think so.

The nature abhors a vacuum.

And if you take away religion, then I think you actually, you get something in its place which is actually worse than what was there before.

I mean, it's like destructive, basically.

You get like the white work mind virus filling the hole that religion used to have.

Taking the place of religion, you get these dystopian de facto religions.

Sure.

um, that, uh, that are, that are very, very self-destructive.

Um, so I think perhaps some, some sort of revival of religion, or at least what we need is, is, um, some coherent philosophy that people can get excited about, um,

I mean, for me, it's a philosophy of curiosity.

I'm curious about the nature of the universe, and I want to go out there, and I want humanity to be out there exploring the stars, maybe meeting alien civilizations.

Maybe in some cases we see the ruins of a long-dead alien civilization, but they were very strong for 10 million years.

You know, the kind of stuff that you see in Star Trek in a non-dystopian sci-fi book or movie or show.

And so I'm just, I have a philosophy of curiosity of like, I just want to know what's going on.