07-28-2017, 04:10 AM
(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.
None of us? We have the science for immortality now; we're only a decade or two from the technology, plus however much the crisis sets us back. The millenials here have a good chance.