[Ready Player One] - next Prophet generation speculation?

[Kinser79]

(07-26-2017, 04:54 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(07-26-2017, 02:58 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(07-25-2017, 12:01 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Politics will be important, and politics will often merge with artistic expression.

By and large yes.  But I think expecting the next era of prophets to come up with those modes of art is wrong thinking.  Initially it is Artist generations which develop new art forms.  The major contributions from the next prophet generation will likely be in the arena of political philosophy.

My money is on a transformation of the economy, with the neo-Prophets working to tear down the capitalist system, but not quite up to setting its replacement in place.  That will be the work of the next Civics  ... and nothing any of us will get the opportunity to witness.

People have been plotting and planning for the overthrow of the capitalist system since at least 1848.  It hasn't happened yet, and is unlikely to unless a post scarcity economy develops, which is possible, it just requires an essentially free nearly limitless energy source(s) to pull off.

Needless to say I don't foresee that happening.