|  Sangfraud | Jan 28, 12:05am | i hadn't looked at this thread for a while and reading what I had missed got me thinking about the question again. What is an ideal future? Someone said ideal is a state that cannot be reached (I paraphrase) and someone else put out the thought, if I read correctly, that it is whatever we make it.
I was suddenly reminded of a statistical collection I did for a large corporation. I have no training in statistics so just collecting facts and figures and opinions wasn't as routine for me as it might have been for say, a psychologist, and every new survey that arrived on my desk showed me something I probably wouldn't have been as amazed at if I had been a statistician. The "curve" got flatter and flatter and flatter until the bump in the curve was a mere rise. When I went back through the anecdotal part of the surveys there seemed to be a huge divergence of opinion in how the future of the company should proceed but when the same surveys were examined in the multiple choice and numerical part of each survey, there was almost unanimity. Corporations are small closed worlds filled with pretty much the same kind of people; that is a given. I wonder if such a survey of any "community" might not show the same kind of result?
What are the chances for any given future when different individuals and different communities have conflicting visions? And I really do not want a world where everyone is the same. I also would not want one where the only future is eschaton.
Part 2) Morality. Isn't morality/morale/morals the adherence to a set of rules? If so, what really are the rules? |
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Sponsor |  Thomas-Jefferson | Jan 28, 7:52am | How about localism, w a true diversity of social systems to choose from?
Or we could build strip malls w walmarts and starbucks and mcdonalds 10k apart around the globe, and everybody could watch MTV |
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| | Sangfraud | Jan 29, 2:06pm | I won't even step in the door of walmart, mcdonalds, target or any of their ilk, so that tells you how I feel about them. Corporate globalism makes me nauseous. The psychopathy of corporations is well-known. That idea is just bad juju.
The problem I see with localism is that it seems to breed prejudice and a "them vs us" attitude. Ideally, I believe, human evolution needs the best parts of local and "global" culture. "Think global, act local" as trite as it has become, might be the best of all possible worlds. |
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| | Bijou242 | Feb 6, 2:21pm | | Mankind holds the keys to the ideal future,whether he will use them to unlock the correct doors remains to be seen? |
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