Friday, August 26, 2011
Old bygone ways of life and possible future ways
People who are not fertile are enabled to reproduce. People with a weak immune system are kept alive by antibiotics, immune-suppressants, etc ..... so all this works against natural selection which if there IS a God must CERTAINLY be part of God's "plan" ... On the other hand in theory we may possibly created true autonomous artificial intelligence which may one day render us obsolete... and in theory we may one day genetically design a superior human..I was a weird kid because in all the sci-fi shows when the superior space aliens were fighting the humans ... I was rooting for the space aliens... because superior seems good....
I sincerely believe that Neanderthal and Native Americans and Australian Aborigines had meaningful lives very different from our own but we think in terms of all the technological and medical advancements. Neanderthal survived 400,000 years and I cant believe that those years sucked. A polity of anarchy served Neanderthal for 400,000 years such a polity is not now useful. Perhaps one day Democracy will outlive its usefulness. I dont feel that Americans are angelic Christians that God smiles upon as in "exceptionalism" or "manifest destiny." If China becomes the dominant economic and military power because their political model is more efficient than ours then, what can I say... are they the "axis of evil?" The Chinese say that religion is poison and in many ways one can see the poisonous effects of extremism, fundamentalism, sectarianism.
