It has been incredibly difficult to start developing new technology! I have run into ontological problems first. I want to create a science for the people and not pursue weaponry but what we need right now seems to be weapons. We need a way to defend ourselves and we need a way to fight. I've been thinking about something that can do both because it feels wrong to design something to solely kill. I would like to find something transformative, converting their existing evil into torrential goodness. They have all the resources, they've ransacked and continue to ransack the Earth for everything it's got and they came up with a lot. I think it would be easiest to turn their resources against them instead of trying to steal them. Have them fracture along lines that already exist like CLASS instead of shooting us. Sharing their wealth is #1 if we're not able to dissolve the money system and then maybe people will see it's not bad with us (radicals, progressives, whatever you want to label me & the other probably 200 people that think this). I want everyone to live a beautiful fucking life and I KNOW white supremacy is keeping us back from it. I want scientific centers that encourage curiosity and showcase the diversity of science for all ages. Truly we are all children and lately I've been thinking that we need a lot more elementary school type posters everywhere, to explain things simply because we like simplicity. I want billions to go towards climate change and Earth research, medicine, materials science, astronomy, study of all living and non living things... physics!!!!! and chemistry too for the chemistry baddies. I don't want more cars, more iPhones, more plastic bags, more missiles, more guns. I want more life, more knowledge, more freedom, more power, more love. All those things are in science.

Non-Western science production ideas-- how do we NOT design weapons?

I've been thinking about how to fight bombs and the first thought I have is force fields but like for real. Bombings are neutralized because your shit is protected. So is there anything in nature that actually does this? I think Western science would enjoy a nice dome Hunger Games style aka mechanical but I'm deeply curious to know if there's insect behavior or interactions between bacteria or weather patterns that can serve as templates for how to neutralize a bomb. There's so much we haven't laterally investigated and it's a shame to miss out on those opportunities. It's a shame things have gotten so specialized as they are without cultivation of the other side. My second thought is to create something that will let us survive a nuclear war if it happens except as soon as we have it, we'd nuke the world. That gets me thinking about us though, because who is that? I don't think this type of research could happen anywhere but the West because of its dominance in the scientific world (aka money, space, resources, education) but any research of the West is bound to produce a weapon before an instrument of healing.

One of the most dangerous weapons we have is science. Sometimes I think it’s the most dangerous. War is alive and war wants weapons. War and strife has been around for centuries, it’s what this very country is founded on: mass murder, genocide, indescribable torture and pain. And the weaponization of science, technology, and intellectual advancement has always been present. Our society controls science and the results of its most scientific enterprises-- products of mass humanity-- were biological and chemical and nuclear warfare. Our world has willingly created, sometimes fervently devoted itself to causing the most destruction and the most damage. Even the research done to make weapons can be a weapon itself. I used to think I was the only one, but I believe more people see this now: the world has been at war for at least a hundred years. I say one hundred because World War I and developments in weapons of mass destruction began. What human beings did to each other... What we do now is the same. We have different weapons that do different things and we're fighting in different places in different times but the violence is the same. Humanity is being hurt. Humanity is hurting itself because a part of it thinks it needs to survive at the expense of the whole, even though it needs the whole to exist. I know that our science is more advanced but what does advanced really mean? Now, we hurt more of humanity than before. We hurt more of the world than before. With every action, voluntary or involuntary, humanity hurts itself. Human beings hurt each other. That's what I see when I look at science, what I've seen these past few years stumbling my way through a science education at Columbia. ​I don't believe that's a world we have to live in.