Predicting the Future or Remembering the Past?
"Human extinction is a difficult subject to study directly since humanity has never been destroyed before," states the text on the Wikipedia page: 'Risks to civilization, humans, and planet Earth'.
But isn't this simply an assumption?
How do we know that humanity has never been destroyed before?
That humanity never existed before?
ONCE before, or even HUNDREDS OF TIMES before.
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The following is something I wrote (which was published in the June 2014 edition of Good Reading Magazine, in response to an article). The article drew attention to the accuracy some writers had been able to achieve with their predictions: "Many novelists make up stuff that's so fantastic and improbable that it could never happen in the real world. But the passing of time shows that yesterday's outlandish fictional idea can often become today's reality. ALESHA EVANS takes a sometimes unnerving look at books that accurately predicted the future."
I responded...
Re Forecasters Of The Future (GR Feb14):
The idea that some have been able to predict our present circumstances is
indeed astounding. But what if something else is at work here; what if rather
than predicting, some are simply 'remembering'?
There is the somewhat esoteric proposition around that the human race may have
ALREADY been at this (our current) level of technological advancement before (possibly many times before).
The concept that any newly-blossoming planetary civilization is inherently
predisposed to totally annihilating itself. Thus, that it may require from the
human species as a whole, several 'increasingly-improving-attempts' (before
ultimate success is manifested) to progress beyond/through a certain 'danger
zone' on the evolutionary scale.
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UPDATE
Sun, 27 Sep 2022
Subject: Has The Time Arrived
Is this where Humanity does the unthinkable?
'The president also threatened nuclear retaliation, saying that Russia had “lots of weapons to reply” to what he called western threats on Russian territory and added that he was not bluffing.'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/21/putin-announces-partial-mobilisation-in-russia-in-escalation-of-ukraine-war
Where thousands of years of ancestral efforts could be wiped out, and with none of us left winners?
Image Credit: Microsoft
1 comment:
This was sent from Bonnie:
I think humanity HAS been destroyed before. I think perhaps some of the
great mysteries, such as Easter Island and Stonehenge, might be solved if
we could realize that the Earth is ever-changing--continents move, islands
sink, while others rise. There could possibly have been an Atlantis for
all we know. Why man feels so invulnerable, I don't understand. With
climate change and the increased temperature of the water, drastic changes
have already been set in motion that may do mankind in. With the melting
of the Polar Cap, when the sea levels rise over time, where I am in North
Alabama will either be beachfront property--or, more likely, underwater
property. Our arrogance has always been our number #1 enemy in almost every
way, extending to the way we treat other human beings whom we feel to be
lesser than ourselves--because of social status, education, power in the
world, financial capability, or the old notion of "royal bloodline." Hubris
is the tragic flaw of many heroes in literature, but it is much more tragic
when this tragic flaw takes us down in real life.
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