On 5/18/2011 5:58 PM, archytas wrote:
For someone like me who can't take god-stories seriously and quite
likes the idea of a human future (or at least the idea of evolution
not just ending through catastrophe), there is an opportunity to
believe in something distant in time and a need for us to direct
ourselves towards it. A time, perhaps in which a form of conscious
life can live very differently from now, and a project worth attaching
to - perhaps a reason for spirituality. Comments on this or the
technology welcome.
As a somewhat personally perfectionator/procrastinist with similar hopes
I go through bursts of inspiration and insight. What is it in us that
compels our appetite to identify and find these great works for
humanity? Perhaps disillusionment with the state of things today when
held against the potential that seems just beyond our reach, but we know
it is there like an itch that won't be scratched. The result of
borderline dissatisfaction with our dissonant social regimes perhaps,
otherwise we should logically find our optimal path of ascent and tread
boldly. But what work would speak to all of us and say, "find the
greatest parts of yourself and this world, join us in uplifting all."
Disappointments, one after the next of misguided and disinformed
Utopians. We've just 'scratched' the surface of our potential destiny.
Last thought, has anyone worked on the principle of sustainability
(mega-faceted) as a philosophical framework? Zarathustra spoke the
coming of Übermensch, however I would be satisfied to meet metasapien. I
seem to be spiraling into dyslogia. Your words are very near to me
Archytas, keep hope.
