I fear those who fear the future. Whoever calls for a halt in technological and/or social progress, I consider a threat to human civilization.
Eight billion single persons. Humanity is not some amorphous mass, it is made up of many individual working parts who's interaction is what determines the course of the whole.RobertEHouse said:A single person can't change anything in regards as to how humanity directs its course....Maze1125 said:Uh, what? Maybe you don't understand how this "change" thing works? At some point along the line somebody's got to say/do stuff in order for more stuff to happen.
Eight billion people live on this planet at time of posting
SnakeTrousers said:Eight billion single persons. Humanity is not some amorphous mass, it is made up of many individual working parts who's interaction is what determines the course of the whole.RobertEHouse said:A single person can't change anything in regards as to how humanity directs its course....Maze1125 said:Uh, what? Maybe you don't understand how this "change" thing works? At some point along the line somebody's got to say/do stuff in order for more stuff to happen.
Eight billion people live on this planet at time of posting
Also you quoted the wrong guy, somehow.
Except apparently during the Islamic Golden Age. Scientists were paid equivalent to what athletes are today. Wish I knew what happened between that time and today. Not just in the pay for scientists, either.inu-kun said:Does it count as fear for the future is something that happened and continued until the end of humankind?Vausch said:That I'll continue to live in a society that values someone's ability to bounce, kick, or hit a ball better than others over another's contributions to scientific fields that make the world a better place for everybody.
You can justify it as remnant of our prehistoric forefathers.
I'm trying here but really can't see the point you're trying to make. It's not like nothing changes just because one group or another isn't getting their way exactly as they want it. War, famine and strife still counts as change. Everyone's actions affect it, even if most of it is inadvertent or counter-intuitive.RobertEHouse said:SnakeTrousers said:Eight billion single persons. Humanity is not some amorphous mass, it is made up of many individual working parts who's interaction is what determines the course of the whole.RobertEHouse said:A single person can't change anything in regards as to how humanity directs its course....Maze1125 said:Uh, what? Maybe you don't understand how this "change" thing works? At some point along the line somebody's got to say/do stuff in order for more stuff to happen.
Eight billion people live on this planet at time of posting
Also you quoted the wrong guy, somehow.
I didn't state Humanity is amorphous blob or mass, that was your conclusion. If you read and understood what I was pointing out was that a individual need not to worry about the future of our species. As a few in this post were bringing up from time to time fear of machines, government, AI, etc. They worry as if they have control over humanities future, yet they don't have any control over what every nation or person does.
When people worry about the future they forget there is a larger picture at play in determination of what our out come will be. So why worry at all, because our outcome is controlled by many factors outside of ourselves. People coming together to effect change in some way is the one way to effect the world we live in, But even then those groups must somehow meet on common ground away from cultural, religion and social economical differences to come to some type of neutral understanding as to what is the right course of action to take to benefit all of humanity .
This is one reason why the UN was founded, yet differences between these large groups in the UN have made it ineffective at preventing wars ,famine and other strife in the world because of bias members. Until we all meet on some type of common ground, with nothing to gain political or personal except the benefit of our species future it will be hard to change anything. So why should one person need to worry with so much outside of their control?
You made me think about that Love Plus DS game, the "virtual girlfriend thingy". I also don't see us living in some kind of simmulation right now, but I can see lots of people willingly choosing to live in a VR world because they don't want to deal with the real world. It wouldn't be a matter of "Who did this to us" but of "We did it to ourselves".TWRule said:The answer would be because we would rather withdraw into our own individual worlds than do the sometimes painful work of attempting to genuinely share a world with others - but we are again responsible for that decision, if so, and we can correct the underlying attitudes if we choose.