34276 Y64 the paradox of knowledge: the prediction
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THE PREDICTION
THAT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
HUMANKIND IS LIKELY TO AIM FOR IMMORTALITY, BLISS AND DIVINITY MAY ANGER,
ALIENATE OR FRIGHTEN ANY NUMBER OF PEOPLE,
SO A FEW CLARIFICATIONS
ARE IN ORDER.
Firstly, this is not
what most individuals will actually do in the 21st century.
It is what humankind as a collective will do. Most people will probably play only a minor role, if any,
in these projects. Even if famine, plague and war become less prevalent, billions of humans in developing countries
and seedy neighborhoods will continue to deal with poverty, illness and violence
even as the elites are already reaching for eternal youth
& godlike powers.
This seems patently unjust.
One could argue that as long as there is a single child dying from malnutrition
or a single adult killed in drug-lord warfare, humankind should focus all its efforts on combating these
woes. Only once the last sword is beaten into a plough share
should we turn our minds to the next big thing?
But history doesn't work like that.
Those living in palaces have always had different agendas
to those living in shacks, and that is unlikely to change
in the 21st century! Secondly, this is
a historical prediction,
not a political
manifesto.
THE PREDICTION
THAT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
HUMANKIND IS LIKELY TO AIM FOR IMMORTALITY, BLISS AND DIVINITY MAY ANGER,
ALIENATE OR FRIGHTEN ANY NUMBER OF PEOPLE,
SO A FEW CLARIFICATIONS
ARE IN ORDER.
Firstly, this is not
what most individuals will actually do in the 21st century.
It is what humankind as a collective will do. Most people will probably play only a minor role, if any,
in these projects. Even if famine, plague and war become less prevalent, billions of humans in developing countries
and seedy neighborhoods will continue to deal with poverty, illness and violence
even as the elites are already reaching for eternal youth
& godlike powers.
This seems patently unjust.
One could argue that as long as there is a single child dying from malnutrition
or a single adult killed in drug-lord warfare, humankind should focus all its efforts on combating these
woes. Only once the last sword is beaten into a plough share
should we turn our minds to the next big thing?
But history doesn't work like that.
Those living in palaces have always had different agendas
to those living in shacks, and that is unlikely to change
in the 21st century! Secondly, this is
a historical prediction,
not a political
manifesto.
28 mrt 2019 - bewerkt op 03 apr 2019
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