John and Platt, I find it truly ironic to be accused of being a hard headed materialistic nihilist whatever by pessimists like the two of you. Of course there was blood and guts and veins in the teeth of the 20th century but at the same time we cured most of the diseases that had killed our ancestors, we opened up possibilities for communication and communion undreamt of in the past. We expanded human conscious beyond the wildest imaginings of the ancient mystics and gained a command over the elements that fulfills the longings of the alchemists. We expanded the Logos and the Mythos creating ever new possibilities for self expression and self discovery.
If this has had negative side effects, and surely it has, then these are the direct effects of dynamic quality. It began in the 20s with newsreels and radio, silent and sequential and by the end of the century it was instant and randomly accessible. The very nature of humanity is changing before our eyes and we are becoming more than any Victorian could have imagined. You want to lay the "blame" for this on science? What blame? Science makes us ever closer to God's. We have all but ended hunger and are taking up the pen and composing messages in DNA, the stuff of life itself. It is religion and philosophy that have failed to guide us in what kind of Gods we ought to become. Reactionaries and fundamentalists are the fall-out of that failure. The result is a moral vacuum we fill with money, the true measure of all Value. What money can't buy, it can rent. That is a what has made a husk of the modern soul. Blaming it on science and the classical understanding is just too obvious and too obviously wrong. Krimel Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
