07-04-2021, 03:02 AM
(07-01-2021, 11:25 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The millennial saeculum has only 8 years left, so why do you call it "some thousands of years?"
Some thousands of years without much cultural advancement, if we don't embrace space travel and genetic modification of human beings, because I believe we have reached the full potential of natural human society confined to a single planet. Okay, we can still democratize the Middle East and Africa and eliminate hunger left in some places left in Madagascar.
Quote:]As I mentioned, there will be no possible interstellar adventures within the current scope of physics as you accept it. It is not a possibility within the philosophy of modernism with its physical tenets. The speed of light barrier can't be broken in your view. So I don't see it as a great breakthrough, unless our worldview drastically changes, possibly through the influence of ETs and adoption of their technology and we achieving the same level of maturity that they have, likely including knowledge and utilization of the realms of being beyond physical life and beyond the limits of sense-bound space and time.
Genetically enhanced galactic humans might figure out how to harness the power of dark energy which caused the Big Bang. It is possible this is a way to break the light speed limit, making space contract in front of a spaceship. Neil DeGrasse Tyson discussed this in the 2020 Cosmos series.
It is very likely some creatures in the Universe are already using such technology.
Quote:Uncivilized behaviors will continue in the modernist world, because it alienates us from life, and people seek an escape. In order to be mature as a species, we must go beyond modernism, and post-modernism.[/size]
Maybe we are overstimulated and need to recognize digital technology addiction as a problem. Many young people would be way more normal if they got off social media. But I also believe the West overcorrected after WW2. Fascism and colonialism were big on collectivism, militarism and cultural superiority, so since the 1950s Silent (and later Boomer) intellectuals started to posit radical individualism, pacifism and cultural relativism as cures. The cures now became problems in themselves, and this is the condition I call postmodernism. Note there are different combinations of these ideas, e.g. the "wolves of Wall Streets" are radical individualists to the point they see any communitarian ideals as evil, but are not pacifists. Socialists like Jeremy Corbyn or Bernie Sanders adopt pacifism and cultural relativism, but not individualism.
Quote:I don't go along with such "relativity" ideas as there's no such thing as great art, or correct ethics, or the idea that narratives or stories are useless, or ideas like that. Freedom from authority is not my only value. I am not a big proponent of political correctness either. That does get taken too far to crazy extremes at times.
I'm glad to know that.