09-14-2019, 06:23 AM
(11-15-2018, 12:04 PM)Bill the Piper Wrote:(11-15-2018, 11:53 AM)Marypoza Wrote: -- it's stuff like this which makes me wonder about S&H theory. If our saecula cycle derives from the British one, shouldn't that hold true 4 Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, & some other places the Brits went? We should all be in sync.
Maybe the cycle was reset when arriving at the new place?
When we start settling on Mars, the new society will also start with a 1T (strong social cohesion, low self-expression, both necessary because of harsh conditions). Regardless of the current turning on Earth.
I look at the places to settle in our own solar system, and I don't see much land to settle on, not to mention the enormous terraforming that would be needed to live on what land there is. And I don't see much appeal to living in satellites either, or that many people could live in them. There's just isn't much out there that could accommodate our overpopulation. I'm afraid that unless we break through the light barrier, and unless other ETs already have and are visiting us, there just isn't much reason to continue the space program, and people will lose interest when our current tech obsession wanes.
And I'm afraid that you millennial guys who did not experience an awakening, just don't realize how necessary spirituality and religion are to people of other generations, and don't realize that it will always come back after it is neglected and suppressed by civic intellectual generations. And you don't realize that this, and not such movements as the Enlightenment, are what are foundational to society, and that in healthy societies spirituality and religion are basic to life throughout all turnings, whereas we Americans and many others today live in a sick society precisely because science, technology, and above all commercial values have obscured and repressed the spiritual and the artistic values. A great society cannot be based on material power and values alone. It is based on devotion and dedication to higher values and the presence of God.