Posted: Mar 23, 2012 12:01 am
I think we have reached the end of our journey, the search for the knowledge that successfully guided us through the crisis of the dark ages and accelerated upon us the dawn of renaissance have all come to past.
Religion, science and reason were early attempts by man to understand and explain the unknown world we lived in. They helped us build institutions to serve the social, economic, medical and universal needs as we learned to define them and demanded they be met. Democracy, freedom, human rights, dignity. etc. etc.
Can the same institutions of religion, science, reason serve us even as the human race has plateaued. We know the limits and boundaries that exist in our great institutions because we can see how limited in effect they have been to address the struggles of mankind as we progress in numbers in a shrinking global context.
We have experienced the green revolution, survived the nuclear clock down and found ways to feed the billions but we are no closer to defining what are mans true aspirations....they all seem to be a little beyond his grasp.
Because the scourges of mankind still persist and rears its head in every new generation and we re-litigate every problem with the same old tried reasons only to fail because the answers are not that much different nor are our problems.
We are a failed experiment, creatures of our own inventions and deeply flawed, perverted and Irreducibly Complex.
Religion, science and reason were early attempts by man to understand and explain the unknown world we lived in. They helped us build institutions to serve the social, economic, medical and universal needs as we learned to define them and demanded they be met. Democracy, freedom, human rights, dignity. etc. etc.
Can the same institutions of religion, science, reason serve us even as the human race has plateaued. We know the limits and boundaries that exist in our great institutions because we can see how limited in effect they have been to address the struggles of mankind as we progress in numbers in a shrinking global context.
We have experienced the green revolution, survived the nuclear clock down and found ways to feed the billions but we are no closer to defining what are mans true aspirations....they all seem to be a little beyond his grasp.
Because the scourges of mankind still persist and rears its head in every new generation and we re-litigate every problem with the same old tried reasons only to fail because the answers are not that much different nor are our problems.
We are a failed experiment, creatures of our own inventions and deeply flawed, perverted and Irreducibly Complex.