Eschaton
Rising Star
Saidin said:
+1
There is no hope in the sense that we are going to miraculously turn things around. I would consider blind hope for humanity to be nothing more than wishful delusion; a direct rejection of the ecological facts. The only hope that we have for ourselves is that we may come to the understanding that whatever is coming is ultimately necessary for our conscious evolution. What many people are suggesting is that we have the ability to somehow grind to a halt the last thousand years or so of historical momentum(not to mention the recently added momentum of scientific progress) which brought us here and that quite simply isn't possible. All of our unconscious actions of the past are a means to an end and this end can grant hope only to those who understand its implications. The vast subjugation of the planet by man not only implies this, but makes such a scenario necessary. We will reap what we sow and what we have sown ourselves is a perfect disaster; one that is ultimately our primary mechanism for awakening.
We have recently come to grips with the temporality of planetary homeostasis, which allowed us to get this "far", and in conjunction with this realization we have discovered that we are simply sitting ducks in the cosmic pond of astrophysical potentialities. We are due for another ice age. And we are due for cometary impact. These are facts. Perhaps our intuitive response of such an event is what we call history; the ugly grapple for understanding before dissolution. We may have hope in the sense that we are capable of coming to the understanding that all of this is ultimately necessary for the greater whole, but first we must own up to our actions collectively, and realize their implications, before we are phased out just like every other civilization based upon materiality. This doctrine of hubris and nemesis is historically established fact. Hope is utterly subjective; mankind as a whole, in my argument, has no hope for its future. This is reflected by our current actions geopolitically, as we are simply maintaining the status quo in the name of inevitable progress. This will not end well. And yet hope truly is in the eye of the beholder.
