
Our global civilisation is clearly on the edge of failure and the most important task it faces, preserving the lives and well-being of its citizens and the future habitability of the planet. But if we're willing to live with the growing likelihood of nuclear war shouldn't we also been willing to explore vigorously every possible means to prevent nuclear war. Shouldn't we consider in every nation major changes in the traditional ways of doing things, a fundamental restructuring of economic political social and religious institutions. We've reached a point where there can be no more special interests or special cases, nuclear arms threaten every person on the Earth. Fundamental changes in society are sometimes labelled impractical or contrary to human nature, as if nuclear war were practical or as if there's only one human nature. But fundamental changes can clearly be made, we're surrounded by them. In the last two centuries abject slavery which was with us for thousands of years has almost entirely been eliminated in a stirring worldwide revolution. Women, systematically mistreated for millennia are gradually gaining the political and economic power traditionally denied them and some wars of aggression have recently been stopped or curtailed because of a revulsion felt by the people in the aggressor nations. The old appeals to racial sexual religious chauvinism and to rabid nationalist fervor are beginning not to work. A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time.
Tydosius wrote:I'm sick of people telling me I have to be a religious extremist or a science extremist, rather than a rational person who is both religious and scientifically knowledgeable, therefore having the open mind to understand our universe better.
I'm sick of people telling me I have to be a capitalist extremist or socialist extremist, rather than a rational person who uses the best of both worlds to create a properly running government.
I'm sick of people telling me I have to never complain about anything or give anyone hell for making changes, rather than a rational person who judges based on true value, morality and contribution rather than bias.
I'm sick of people telling me I have to be an extremist, rather than a rational person, simply because I do not fit their view of what a rational person is.
You know, if we do end up being governed by some sort of artificial intelligence, at least it would choose the superior outcome, rather than sticking to traditions so twisted and far from the original but still vaguely in the same shape enough to be called the same thing.
Had to get this off my chest.
Tydosius wrote:I'm sick of people telling me I have to be a religious extremist or a science extremist, rather than a rational person who is both religious and scientifically knowledgeable, therefore having the open mind to understand our universe better.
I'm sick of people telling me I have to be a capitalist extremist or socialist extremist, rather than a rational person who uses the best of both worlds to create a properly running government.
I'm sick of people telling me I have to never complain about anything or give anyone hell for making changes, rather than a rational person who judges based on true value, morality and contribution rather than bias.
I'm sick of people telling me I have to be an extremist, rather than a rational person, simply because I do not fit their view of what a rational person is.
You know, if we do end up being governed by some sort of artificial intelligence, at least it would choose the superior outcome, rather than sticking to traditions so twisted and far from the original but still vaguely in the same shape enough to be called the same thing.
Had to get this off my chest.
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