Email Me About The Future
As I was doing my daily perusal of news websites, and sports, I saw an interactive story. A writer at CNN wanted to know what we think the future will be like. Since I've been wanting to start a blog for some time now, and have recently fallen in love with the two headed Greek god, Janus. I decided this would be a good place to start. Looking forward and looking back.
What will the future be like? I have a sneaking feeling that we have peaked as a civilization, more precisely our method of living has peaked. The capitalist machine marketed the industrialized world and made it profitable never realizing that what we drive, fly, wear, type on, and on and on and on, is not replacable, and hardly reusable. So, what will the future be like? I'm not sure, but I think that we will once again get booted from the garden, because even inspite of our insatiable curiousity we don't learn. Even when we eat the knowledge--we don't learn it. And instead of angels guarding the entrance there will only be our poverty, our lack of resources that we have been so prodigal with.
What I hope is that we can save just enough of what we know now to avoid the darkness that the western world experienced after the fall of Rome. That we can lose our technology and still manage to keep the good of our western democracy. Innoncence until proven otherwise; the freedom of speech, and hopefully the continued freedom of ideas; the equality of races. I would even include a few religious ideas: loving our neighbor; respecting life.
All said, my own interests are not nearly so doom related. I really do believe that there is good in people and in this world. I think that we just delved too deep too fast to reference Tolkien. Not that we shouldn't delve. It just needs to be done with intention, with a pair of eyes on the past and a pair of eyes on the future. That is what I think we need to pass on, that kind of bifurcated vision. If we can learn to weigh our decisions in the future, we can learn to balance.
Rupert
What will the future be like? I have a sneaking feeling that we have peaked as a civilization, more precisely our method of living has peaked. The capitalist machine marketed the industrialized world and made it profitable never realizing that what we drive, fly, wear, type on, and on and on and on, is not replacable, and hardly reusable. So, what will the future be like? I'm not sure, but I think that we will once again get booted from the garden, because even inspite of our insatiable curiousity we don't learn. Even when we eat the knowledge--we don't learn it. And instead of angels guarding the entrance there will only be our poverty, our lack of resources that we have been so prodigal with.
What I hope is that we can save just enough of what we know now to avoid the darkness that the western world experienced after the fall of Rome. That we can lose our technology and still manage to keep the good of our western democracy. Innoncence until proven otherwise; the freedom of speech, and hopefully the continued freedom of ideas; the equality of races. I would even include a few religious ideas: loving our neighbor; respecting life.
All said, my own interests are not nearly so doom related. I really do believe that there is good in people and in this world. I think that we just delved too deep too fast to reference Tolkien. Not that we shouldn't delve. It just needs to be done with intention, with a pair of eyes on the past and a pair of eyes on the future. That is what I think we need to pass on, that kind of bifurcated vision. If we can learn to weigh our decisions in the future, we can learn to balance.
Rupert
posted by King Rupert at 11:39 AM
6 Comments:
Hey Tim,
Good job starting a blog. We have now been completely taken over by the capatalist machine of the internet. :) Adam laughed at me because I stumbled over the "good in people and the world" line. It was unintentional, but somewhat fitting of me. Anyways, my blogs not near as deep, but check it out if you want. I have a link to your blog as well. More good marketing. Have a great day. Say hi to Laura.
P:)
Great name for a blog!
I was thinking about the future today (and our much-loved doom and gloom scenarios) and was also reading TTCv2:
"When all the world recognizes good as good, this in itself is evil.
Indeed the hidden and the manifest give birth to each other."
...and it got me wondering if the future will work itself out inspite of us. If maybe we are sowing the seeds to success by our constant failures.
These are fresh, ill-formed thoughts. Perfect for airing in a place the ENTIRE WORLD can read them...
Hey King Rupert,
Great to see your blog! I agree that we may have peaked as a civilization. Nothing points more clearly to that than our exponentially-increasing desire for "media". Whatever time is free now for thought, or social interaction, or any physical endeavor will soon be overpowered by our need as a society to be entertained (or equally bad, our desire to have the "newest"). Speaking of which, I had to CREATE a blog just to post this comment. Nice.
Anyway, I'm looking forward (and backward?) to hearing more. Your blog now has a link on ours...if you get a chance, give us a link too.
I'm glad someone has the balls on blogger to write a blog that has some sort of meaning.
It seems to me that all civilizations function like individuals in so far as they all have a self-preservation instinct. As a civilization codifies its habits (like individuals do as they get older) its ability to resist change (preserve its self)increases. Because of this a civilization's impetus/direction/M.O. becomes increasingly difficult to change with out using destructive force (fight club, american beauty, etc). So in order for humanity as represented in a particular civilization to be reborn its civilization must eventually die--it gains itself by losing itself (or at least that is what my extremely limited/dufus understanding of history suggests). So, it seems to me that a linear view of history marching or failing or whatever towards some form of a better tomorrow is at once unrealistic (because of all the crap I just said) and at the same time a necessary goal. So now I just need someone to tell me why my gut says that it is a necessary goal . . . smile for me daddy (what you lookin at?) let me see your grill (you wanna see my what?) ya your grill, ya ya your grill (the top row's diamond and the bottom row's gold)
Luddite. ;-)
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