The great enigma of scientific and technological progress: for every great leap forwards there exists a concurrent potential for even greater (catastrophic) leaps backwards.
Tag: civilisation
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Catastrophy Beyond Imagination
Some dawning realities are so vast that we do not even have words, let alone cognitive methods, to characterise or represent them. Climate Change is one of these realities.
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Humanity: Havoc or Hope ?
Humanity requires a singular, unifying goal…
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Continuity of Civilisation
There may be an irresolvable existential bottleneck between self-seeking commercial incentives and the long-term continuity of human civilisation.
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Retrospective: Uncivilised Economies
Impoverished individuals, groups and cultures are endlessly blamed for their own existential distress but the causes of such inequitable wealth distribution are functionally structural and endemically psychological in nature…
The normative is always also the reproduction of the culturally self-reproductive and useful; the mundane carelessly shrouds the profound and transparently un-hidden secret of cultural, logical self-replication.
The world feels a little like some complex tapestry in which we are constantly weaving design in at one end while the other end unravels…
Daedelus Kite 