Re: Divergent and Convergent Insight
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 10:12 pm
Hey Scott! Where have you been? That is exactly what I was also trying to get at. You could not put that any better! That is the inspiration and motivation I want to hear! Thank you very much for that. The next question is: When do you want to begin?Scott Gardener wrote:Free will: a conscious being has the ability to decide for itself what it wants to be. I say we expand on that, directing our evolution towards greater freedom of identity.
In 2010, that means kicking the religious establishment out of the way of homosexual and bisexual civil rights, recognizing transgenders as people struggling to overcome a problem rather than just weird, and acknowledging minority religions like Wicca as legitimate, and not reasons to take away children from parents or fire people from work.
It also means getting over our notion of human superiority and recognizing that a legitimately "superior" being doesn't die so easily from cancer, stupid habits, or old age. It means fixing problems like chronic pain or paralyzing diseases like Parkinson's or muscular dystrophy, relegating them to the history books forever. And, that means being a bit more brave about genetic engineering and cybernetics, and not assuming in our science fiction that these technology are hubris against God or a monster waiting to kill us off.