I Don't Want A Sci-Fi Future by Caitlin Johnstone published on 2022-12-07T07:32:45Z I don't desire a future for humanity like the ones imagined by our culturally designated future-imaginers. I don't want humans living in Elon Musk Mars colonies or Jeff Bezos space cylinders. I don't want us to fly out into the stars, to disappear into virtual reality universes, or to move away from our humanness by becoming cybernetic organisms. Not yet anyway. Not for a long time. Not until we've done what we need to do here first. Reading by Tim Foley. Image by Adobe Stock. Genre News & Politics Comment by Michael Mealling While I respect your personal vision, it is a very culturally biased one where the end result is a monoculture around the values that you want to optimize for. I want our species to be as multivariant as possible. Personally, I find your vision to be very stifling and dystopian as I'm sure you would find mine. That's one of the beauties of our species: one person's utopia is another's dystopia. Can you imagine how boring life would be if we all thought the same way? Space is the only place that has the room & resources for our species to explore all of its potentials without coming into direct conflict. Anything less than that is a sad, limited, and disappointing future that I would choose not to participate in. Monocultures close off entire classes of experiences and states of being. But the challenge we have on this planet is that incompatible cultures come into such close contact and compete over such limited resources, that conflict occurs. Space is the solution. 2022-12-12T02:28:09Z Comment by Charles van der Haegen Yes @caitoz Find the path to a harmonious World What do we need to do, here and now, to get there? How to do it peacefully, non violently towards ourselves and towards others All others /2 I've found no better than 'Trusting Here is the best elaboration I've found untill now academia.edu An ecology of trust? Consenting to a pluralist universe The idea of ‘progress’ was undoubtedly at the heart of the experience of the Moderns, guiding at the same time their thought, the values that they gave 2022-12-07T09:17:14Z
