Becoming enlightened

People seek enlightenment because knowing enough of the right things tends to keep more people alive and happier and alive longer.

Enlightenment isn't just for yourself, it is also for everyone you know. People try to help enlighten their children in many different ways:

By not abusing them

By not starving them

By not killing them

By feeding them healthy food

By protecting them from harm

So, parents begin enlightening their children sometimes even before birth in the ways that they treat their children.

Mothers often change their diets or stop smoking or taking drugs or drinking alcohol when they realize that they are pregnant to help their children better survive in the womb and after.

This is all "Enlightened Behavior" that mothers try to impart health to their children even before they are born. Then after they are born they try to teach their children enlightened ways of thinking that will help them become non-violent children so they will be less likely to kill others growing up.

For example, when I was growing up children tended to be much more violent than they are now to each other than they are now in the 1950s when I was a child growing up.

Part of this was just people were a little more like animals than they are now. Now people are more like neurotic poodles than before trying to be perfect all the time and often this makes people crazy too in a different way where one day they just pull out a gun and start shooting everyone and going berserk.

I think maybe it was better in some ways when I grew up because at least people were allowed to have feelings which often they are not allowed to feel things now at all.

And when people had their feelings often they would beat each other up and various ways. But, when you aren't using a gun it takes a lot to actually kill someone. So, most of the time people didn't die in the violence that often ensued in life, especially between the ages of about 4 and 18 years of age.

So, I guess I'm saying that humans are animals and when you remove all their animal qualities you just have neurotic poodles instead of animals and this causing increasing psychological problems over time as well.

So, maybe a part of  enlightenment is understanding that humans are domesticated animals to begin with.

If you start there you might wind up with a better result in civilizations around the world.