Plain Old Jane
10-18-2004, 09:35 PM
Ladies and gentlemen and those inbetween, I have news to report on our progress as a race and civilization. The list will be in catertgorical format and I may miss something, but I will attempt to make it as brief and sensical as I can in your inferioir earth terminology.
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- Social Progress -
Overall, Humans as a species have had relatively NO social progress within the last 3000 years. Your main problems: Organized Religion (and its relationship with nationalism and politics, we're talking churches here, not religion), Low Special (as in, concerning the species) Esteem (goes hand in hand with the previous item), Relative Morality, and Ignorance.
These social anchors can be grouped together under one singular catergorization, but I will explain each in detail first.
Religion in itself is a WONDERFUL idea, it brings people together and praises life and love and freedom, but when people begin adding structure to an otherwise idealic concept, then add their own ideals to further their own ends, thats when you have an organized religion. The problem with this is that often religion has roots in mythos and sometimes even nonsensical stories and traditions, people can be manipulated into doing the direct opposite of their beliefs this way, and to date there is no way to combat such an occurance. (such examples are: extreme muslims of the modern era, spanish catholics of the inquisition era, germans of the world war 2 era...) More on this in a bit.
Low Special (Spee-shal) Esteem, Humans are TOO often handing off the responsibility of leadership to the first ones that ask for it. It is chaos in this time of Democracy, when rather we should implementing more of a Meritocracy. The way to combat this system of degration, is to convince people that they hold power over themselves, thats what our forebearers attempted to do when they created the United States, it did work for a time, but in the long run, this is small chops.
Relative Morality and Ignorance, Humans often clash with other humans on the topic of morality, from Homosexualism to putting a Confederate Flag in your car window, Humans love to combat eachother on small social interlaces like these, thats the problem with relative morality, it drives people apart (morals often created by the churches that brought them together in the first place), the person and singular social group (interchangable at this point) wants everything perfect for themselves RIGHT NOW. But a persons life is not rigid, it flows and bends as we grow older, circumstances change, and so should peoples morals. People are losing sight of the forest for the tree, and thats the ignorance.
These concepts I will label: Social Vice
Social Advance - Inadequate
- Technological Progress -
Technological progress has remained relatively unhindered by any sort of tangible occlusion, but rather always remains proportionate to the beliefs of the people. The reason for this I can only speculate as Society becoming more nighlistic in regard to science and advanced thought (but oddly not morality). But all too quickly are we running out of thinking room, there WILL come a time when we will no longer advance because we cannot fathom anything more than what we can percieve. Existance in all its glory is infinite and so is the amount of it that can be explained. Newton's laws covered the inalienable aspects of our existance, the concepts of reactivity, space, and gravity are reality and can be explained with proven equations, this explained maybe half of existance as we know it. Then came Einstein with Atomics, the indivisible. Humans busted through the theory that atoms are the smallest particles known and postulated electrons, and then quarks. The smallest particle that I know of is the Photon, a particle, with wave like properties, of light, (with no mass to speak of). But these explainations are getting more and more complex while the amount of existance they explain is getting smaller and smaller. You see, discovery rates seem to be decreasing exponentially while complexity seems to be increasing the same way. This is not a problem at the moment because technological advancement has facilitated more discovery, but humans will soon run into the technological wall when the portion of existance they are a part of will hold them back from seeing more.
To remedy this, we need to evolve into something that CAN percieve of something more than what is. Enlightenment, if you will.
Technological Advance - Very Adequate
- Ecological Advance -
In situe with technological advance, ecological advance has given humans what they have long been working to avoid, a deadline.
Geologically speaking, Humans make WAY too much CO2 and CH4 (Carbon Dioxide and Methene) If one takes a chart of the CO2 content and a CH4 content of the world and overlay the, they will be virtually identical. The Problem: These two chemicals act as VERY effective insulators, this is NOT a problem at the moment as we are in the last stages of a Circular orbit around the sun so tempurtures are very temperate at the moment, CO2 and CH4 wont matter much now, they'll just keep things more temperate then they would be without us.
How much CO2 do we make? Imagine Humans as a second in geological time. We've made more CO2 in a second than anything has in the past five seconds, and that rate will increase with the population.
You may not have noticed, but humans are actually entering an Ice Age right now, and it stands to reason that the Insulators in our atmosphere have something to do with the temperate climate. But after the Ice Age ends, in a few thousand years, when the circular orbit turns eliptical, we will be closer to the sun than ever and have a big ole' butt load of insulators in the atmosphere, the surface of the earth will become the bottom of a frying pan and the entirety of civilization will be catastrophically decimated by the ensueing 'burnination.'
Ecological Advancement - Momentarily Adequate
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- Social Progress -
Overall, Humans as a species have had relatively NO social progress within the last 3000 years. Your main problems: Organized Religion (and its relationship with nationalism and politics, we're talking churches here, not religion), Low Special (as in, concerning the species) Esteem (goes hand in hand with the previous item), Relative Morality, and Ignorance.
These social anchors can be grouped together under one singular catergorization, but I will explain each in detail first.
Religion in itself is a WONDERFUL idea, it brings people together and praises life and love and freedom, but when people begin adding structure to an otherwise idealic concept, then add their own ideals to further their own ends, thats when you have an organized religion. The problem with this is that often religion has roots in mythos and sometimes even nonsensical stories and traditions, people can be manipulated into doing the direct opposite of their beliefs this way, and to date there is no way to combat such an occurance. (such examples are: extreme muslims of the modern era, spanish catholics of the inquisition era, germans of the world war 2 era...) More on this in a bit.
Low Special (Spee-shal) Esteem, Humans are TOO often handing off the responsibility of leadership to the first ones that ask for it. It is chaos in this time of Democracy, when rather we should implementing more of a Meritocracy. The way to combat this system of degration, is to convince people that they hold power over themselves, thats what our forebearers attempted to do when they created the United States, it did work for a time, but in the long run, this is small chops.
Relative Morality and Ignorance, Humans often clash with other humans on the topic of morality, from Homosexualism to putting a Confederate Flag in your car window, Humans love to combat eachother on small social interlaces like these, thats the problem with relative morality, it drives people apart (morals often created by the churches that brought them together in the first place), the person and singular social group (interchangable at this point) wants everything perfect for themselves RIGHT NOW. But a persons life is not rigid, it flows and bends as we grow older, circumstances change, and so should peoples morals. People are losing sight of the forest for the tree, and thats the ignorance.
These concepts I will label: Social Vice
Social Advance - Inadequate
- Technological Progress -
Technological progress has remained relatively unhindered by any sort of tangible occlusion, but rather always remains proportionate to the beliefs of the people. The reason for this I can only speculate as Society becoming more nighlistic in regard to science and advanced thought (but oddly not morality). But all too quickly are we running out of thinking room, there WILL come a time when we will no longer advance because we cannot fathom anything more than what we can percieve. Existance in all its glory is infinite and so is the amount of it that can be explained. Newton's laws covered the inalienable aspects of our existance, the concepts of reactivity, space, and gravity are reality and can be explained with proven equations, this explained maybe half of existance as we know it. Then came Einstein with Atomics, the indivisible. Humans busted through the theory that atoms are the smallest particles known and postulated electrons, and then quarks. The smallest particle that I know of is the Photon, a particle, with wave like properties, of light, (with no mass to speak of). But these explainations are getting more and more complex while the amount of existance they explain is getting smaller and smaller. You see, discovery rates seem to be decreasing exponentially while complexity seems to be increasing the same way. This is not a problem at the moment because technological advancement has facilitated more discovery, but humans will soon run into the technological wall when the portion of existance they are a part of will hold them back from seeing more.
To remedy this, we need to evolve into something that CAN percieve of something more than what is. Enlightenment, if you will.
Technological Advance - Very Adequate
- Ecological Advance -
In situe with technological advance, ecological advance has given humans what they have long been working to avoid, a deadline.
Geologically speaking, Humans make WAY too much CO2 and CH4 (Carbon Dioxide and Methene) If one takes a chart of the CO2 content and a CH4 content of the world and overlay the, they will be virtually identical. The Problem: These two chemicals act as VERY effective insulators, this is NOT a problem at the moment as we are in the last stages of a Circular orbit around the sun so tempurtures are very temperate at the moment, CO2 and CH4 wont matter much now, they'll just keep things more temperate then they would be without us.
How much CO2 do we make? Imagine Humans as a second in geological time. We've made more CO2 in a second than anything has in the past five seconds, and that rate will increase with the population.
You may not have noticed, but humans are actually entering an Ice Age right now, and it stands to reason that the Insulators in our atmosphere have something to do with the temperate climate. But after the Ice Age ends, in a few thousand years, when the circular orbit turns eliptical, we will be closer to the sun than ever and have a big ole' butt load of insulators in the atmosphere, the surface of the earth will become the bottom of a frying pan and the entirety of civilization will be catastrophically decimated by the ensueing 'burnination.'
Ecological Advancement - Momentarily Adequate
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