06-12-2020, 02:29 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-12-2020, 02:40 AM by Blazkovitz.)
(06-11-2020, 05:12 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Cultural diversity at least makes life more interesting. So it is with a bonsai tree if you are a German-American or Bach if you are a Japanese-American. But let us remember that the 'global media' offer much content designed to numb and pacify morons and near-morons. Do you really think that the pop music our our time is better than that of the Big Band era, let alone the popular music of about 230 years ago in Vienna? Haydn and Mozart wrote highly-accessible music then treated much like the Big Band music of 80 years ago was treated 80 years ago.
Because of globalization and technology, we have more access to the world's cultural heritage than earlier generations. I'm not into classical music, but if anything with today's media it's more accessible to an average citizen than it was in the 18th century. Same for poetry or visual arts. There is a lot of valuable content online, but you have to find it among the garbage.
Quote:Cat ears or purple skin? That would be cruel.
It would be an equivalent of super creative names like Elon Musk's X Æ A-12
It might be the case our descendants in 3000 or 4000 will say "we used to do such things but we gave it up". Or it may become something completely normal. We cannot know.Eric the Green Wrote:Russia is about as far away from the desirable or ideal state as exists on the planet today.
It's still definitely better than North Korea or Saudi Arabia or Venezuela. Or than Russia of 1950. They have improved a lot comparing to the Stalinist era.
Quote:That is the future. Human rights, and equal justice and opportunity. The philosopher Hegel was a prophet of the idea that history is the unfolding of human freedom, and Teilhard De Chardin extended this account to all of evolution.
Homo galacticus will be freer than Homo sapiens, because he will be less enslaved by evolved psychology inherited from cavemen. Freer, and at the same time more spontaneously virtuous. There will more diversity of personalities, but dangerous traits like sadism and psychopathy won't be present.
