@Oportunist
First of all, higher educated people do not "run the world", as already previously pointed out by @Thalassokrator
But if you are talking about governments run by aristocracy, monarchs, etc. it's worth noting that:
1) These governments are rarely actually completely controlled by the top. Most modern governments still involve the people to a certain extent, with the keyword being "most" before ya'll cancel me off a cliff.
2) Most people have really, really good intentions for society. There is a common saying: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" - and it's true. You could see a truly beautiful future where no one is starving where all our needs are met etc. - and only need a couple steps to achieve it. Then you try to achieve it and everything goes wrong. It's not that people haven't tried to fix things in the world. It's just that it is much, much harder to fix problems than you think it is.
3) Wars are started by people, that, again, think they have good intentions. Wars can be fought for secular (It's my land!) reasons, like the current two wars in Israel-Palestine and Russia-Ukraine, as well as so many other wars, or they can be fought for religious reasons (whether you choose to group Israel-Palestine in this category instead is your choice).
Point is, people think they're doing a good thing for their country. Sometimes the people to start wars are people that think war is all about glory. People that have never seen the horrific reality of war. People that demand sacrifice and nationalism - without ever being on the front lines.
Sometimes people know exactly what war is about. They fight war not because they want to. But because they have to. They have to fight in order to preserve something they love, whether it be a country, a family, an ally, or anything valued to them.
Then, countries realize that if they're behind militarily they'll be easy targets for the next war. Is that thinking irrational? I'll leave it to you to think about. But the reality is that they feel like they need to develop militarily. They feel the "need" - and so they do.
4) Greed plays a big part too. When you have power to sway large portions of the world with your worldview, whether you be an activist, a famous actor/actress, a celebrity, a millionaire/billionaire, and so on - you're likely to start taking things for yourself. Of course, referring back to #2 - not all of what we see as greed is initially greed. Sometimes it's good intentions (aka I take this for myself, so that I can give it back, slowly...) and other times it's just thinly disguised bs designed to take as much for oneself as possible.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg! The world doesn't run in the same oversimplified manner that we see it running as. Even the highest educated people cannot solve the world's problems.
But you know what we all can do? We can make small changes, one at a time. And when we are all involved in helping our respective causes, we can make big waves in the ocean, one step at a time :)
I've heard people describe the human race as the stars. And I see it this way: we are all stars in the night sky. An individual star is not very bright, and if I asked you to search for that individual star, you probably won't find it. There's just too many stars in the sky. But what if that star was particularly bright? Now maybe you see it a bit better. Yet still you do not see that star very well. Because at the end of the day, it's just one star, out of the thousands you can see with the naked eye. (There are yet farther stars you do not see, stars that are bright and brighter still, yet we do not see because we choose not to see. We choose not to use the telescope, use technology to reach. Maybe this is a bad analogy, but I think it's really kind of similar to how we choose to not help people on the other side of the world and turn the other way.)
Now with many stars comes constellations. With constellations comes stories, beautiful stories told over thousands of years. With stories comes power and culture, and with groups of people we will become strong as well.
First of all, higher educated people do not "run the world", as already previously pointed out by @Thalassokrator
But if you are talking about governments run by aristocracy, monarchs, etc. it's worth noting that:
1) These governments are rarely actually completely controlled by the top. Most modern governments still involve the people to a certain extent, with the keyword being "most" before ya'll cancel me off a cliff.
2) Most people have really, really good intentions for society. There is a common saying: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" - and it's true. You could see a truly beautiful future where no one is starving where all our needs are met etc. - and only need a couple steps to achieve it. Then you try to achieve it and everything goes wrong. It's not that people haven't tried to fix things in the world. It's just that it is much, much harder to fix problems than you think it is.
3) Wars are started by people, that, again, think they have good intentions. Wars can be fought for secular (It's my land!) reasons, like the current two wars in Israel-Palestine and Russia-Ukraine, as well as so many other wars, or they can be fought for religious reasons (whether you choose to group Israel-Palestine in this category instead is your choice).
Point is, people think they're doing a good thing for their country. Sometimes the people to start wars are people that think war is all about glory. People that have never seen the horrific reality of war. People that demand sacrifice and nationalism - without ever being on the front lines.
Sometimes people know exactly what war is about. They fight war not because they want to. But because they have to. They have to fight in order to preserve something they love, whether it be a country, a family, an ally, or anything valued to them.
Then, countries realize that if they're behind militarily they'll be easy targets for the next war. Is that thinking irrational? I'll leave it to you to think about. But the reality is that they feel like they need to develop militarily. They feel the "need" - and so they do.
4) Greed plays a big part too. When you have power to sway large portions of the world with your worldview, whether you be an activist, a famous actor/actress, a celebrity, a millionaire/billionaire, and so on - you're likely to start taking things for yourself. Of course, referring back to #2 - not all of what we see as greed is initially greed. Sometimes it's good intentions (aka I take this for myself, so that I can give it back, slowly...) and other times it's just thinly disguised bs designed to take as much for oneself as possible.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg! The world doesn't run in the same oversimplified manner that we see it running as. Even the highest educated people cannot solve the world's problems.
But you know what we all can do? We can make small changes, one at a time. And when we are all involved in helping our respective causes, we can make big waves in the ocean, one step at a time :)
I've heard people describe the human race as the stars. And I see it this way: we are all stars in the night sky. An individual star is not very bright, and if I asked you to search for that individual star, you probably won't find it. There's just too many stars in the sky. But what if that star was particularly bright? Now maybe you see it a bit better. Yet still you do not see that star very well. Because at the end of the day, it's just one star, out of the thousands you can see with the naked eye. (There are yet farther stars you do not see, stars that are bright and brighter still, yet we do not see because we choose not to see. We choose not to use the telescope, use technology to reach. Maybe this is a bad analogy, but I think it's really kind of similar to how we choose to not help people on the other side of the world and turn the other way.)
Now with many stars comes constellations. With constellations comes stories, beautiful stories told over thousands of years. With stories comes power and culture, and with groups of people we will become strong as well.
