This post strays from the hard facts and reflection on the current state of affairs to reflect on reflections of development. The title author that I would like to muse on is Philip K. Dick. He schizophrenic and such and wrote many stories that were out there. But, they are on the edge in that they take you on a journey with a mind that can't rely on reality, or even its beliefs. So few things in this world make people think in that way. People with chemical imbalances have similar things....I do not know this because I have not experienced and do not claim to know what it is like. I am approaching this from a "sane" person's standpoint, as most of the pop. is.
Many of Dick's stories involve development...of course, they are science fiction, so they involve the future. But, Philip usual imagines a near future and he delves into the negative of the technological and socio-chemical aspects that were developing is his time. The human psyche is very fragile, and without the comforts of what it assumes should be right, it fights and struggles and searches for purchase. You have to step out of the box and ask "what if?", "why this way?", "what values define this world?"
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What we create is lead on by what we value. Are we ruled by out innate desire to get our genes, or genes like us, passed on? Is it all a product of evolution? Or have we transcended to a greater understanded of what it takes to balance a system? No animal does not have the desire to over-reproduce and eventually destroy its ecosystem. Humans are just the best at it, it is natural. At some point we need to forget the natural and look at the future.
In conclusion, many of Philip's stories ask what is the ultimate end/have past or current actions looked at what might happen in the future, and/or where do our conceptions of what is right/wrong/or best for the world fit.
How do your values shape your perception of the present and future? And, what do you want to create with those values?
1 comment:
tough to comment on a lot of your entries. they cover so many different things.
ur comment about genes/evolution with respect to the enviro/destruction of ecosystem makes me think about some things. the destruction of the environment is probably an indirect effect of evolution. who knows what environmental destruction leads to in the long-term, especially as it relates to those destroying it, us humans. will humans outlast the earth? based on history and our current understanding of biology & geology, probably not.
will destroying the earth lead to our own demise? i guess biologically speaking, i'd consider it more of an exhaustion of earth's resources than destruction. who knows. so many things could happen...an astronomical event destroying or significantly altering the earth, the evolution of humans/new speciation, the arrival of extra-terrestrials, etc...
interesting things to think about
it probably won't be our generation, but i think people in the coming generation or two may live into the 150s-200s
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