Do you want to save the world? change the world? Or just get by?

A cross between save and change for me. I don't like the classical idea of saving or changing the worlf in the form of a revolution as I don't know if I could properly implement my ideas on a large scale without it backfiring big time. I believe a backfiring in these sorts of situations have large numbers of people just wanting to live their lives being unpleasantly caught in the middle of it all. There's also the issue of it becoming nothing but a big ego display on my part, "Hey look at me, aren't I cool? I saved the world!" I believe the world needs to save itself, if I was to find a way to save anything, I guess it would have to be more of a guide or adviser of sorts, doing my part to help guide the world away from turmoil (without me becoming delusional or generating a god complex!) If the MBTI is true then the personality types aren't going anywhere anytime soon and thus as an extension neither are the different types of people, which from the various personality type perspectives being "deadbeats/fascists/assholes/criminals/pigs/terrorists" etc. In the end, the rifts and wounds between the types need to heal and everyone needs to find a way around or through their differences, no one person or small group can do that. I think its the same for everything. I don't think I really know what war, peace, life, death etc. mean to me but I think everyone in the world needs to stop, think and come to their own conclusions about these matters entirely from their own points of view, I think it will at least produce some interesting results. So in that, I haven't actually saved anything at all, just sat back and chose the lazy option. roud:

I'm also tempted to say change/affect as small deeds can eventually create larger consequences. But I didn't because my idealism is ultimately in the "save the world" category.

I never really wanted to change the world, but I did want to kind of help people in a way… through art. That sounds kind of silly now.

There was a time when I was inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky and his reason for creating films. He said “My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.” I wanted to create art that reaches out to people, to, I don’t know… help them live, give them hope or something, I’m not sure I fully understood myself. But I don’t want that anymore, and I don’t think I could do it even if I wanted to.

I have no intentions of saving the world or changing it. And I mean actually changing it, not charity stuff, I don’t believe that small acts of kindness change anything. I know I would be bound to get disillusioned sooner or later. I don’t even know what I want to do with my life, nevermind changing the world. I think through such overly idealistic goals you only end up fighting windmills.

So yea, I care about getting by. I care about living a good and comfortable life and being loyal to those close to me. I focus on avoiding inflicting pain upon others rather than bettering the world. That’s as noble as I get.

I want to change the world by influencing peoples' mindsets through art

For the 'save the world' part: i don't think the world needs saving. Sometime I think i'm being really selfish and narrow-minded by saying that, because I haven't experienced any of the hardships people face, like war and abuse and stuff. But in a way, apart from it all, I feel it's what humanity should be. I like the way the world is imperfect. I mean yeah, if I could, I probably would want to diminish poverty and all that, but... I don't want to revamp it completely into some sort of paradise, because I think it would then contradict the whole nature of humanity. I feel that this is who we are, and this is who we should be. Our flaws are what make us alive.
As mean and ignorant as it sounds, I cannot picture a perfect world with flawless political systems and zero environment/social issues. Because, irunno, that isn't living, is it? It's more like... surviving, yet not truly understanding what it means to be alive. :x do i make sense.