Tag: Future of Humanity

The Search for Truth or how Paideia will Save Us All

"So little trouble do the many take in the search for truth; they turn more readily to what is at hand."

On Voyagers

Perhaps it is poetic for Humanity to seek her Cosmic Transubstantiation among the Stars where decay is a distant menace, unlike here on Earth where it's an ever-present reality.

A cowardly future

The Future belongs to the unfittest. Man up or this race to the bottom will end us. Enough said.

De Urbis et Rusticus

Nothing lasts forever. All life has a beginning and an end. We used to be nomads pitching our troglodyte tents everywhere we went. We invented agriculture, settled down, built cities. Waged wars that burned cities down. There are no guarantees that won’t happen again. Not with nuclear weapons. If you want to survive you need to go back to basics. Or not! Your call!

What would happen if there was a global nuclear war?

Afraid of nuclear war? Don't worry. If you are a city dweller, most likely you won't feel a thing. For the rest of you, tough luck though. But if you care more about the human race, like I do, chances are this monumental blood letting will only set us back a couple hundred years, tops. After which I am sure we will contrive to do it again. Because we are champions in shooting ourselves in the foot. But our survival as a species is not in question. Our civilization as we know it today however is.

The Schadenfreunde of Our Mortality

Each generation faces the shift of being proven wrong by the next generation. And every generation imagine itself to be the smartest one in history. Luckily, reality proves us constantly and irrevocably wrong about the world we live in. The other day I was returning home from work thinking about the future of the universe. … Continue reading The Schadenfreunde of Our Mortality →

The First and Last Men

Humans are bound to evolve. But Evolution’s constraining factor is the Universe and its Laws. Everything comes from something and changes into something else. Suns are born, evolve, and die. And when they do, they take away their planetary systems. Given enough time or a long-enough ‘cosmic rope’, What Will We Do to avoid such a Master-Reset? Most likely: Nothing. If you want to know why, step right in, folks.

They Died with their Boots On

Are we too many or not enough? Do we accept the narrative of the Elite? Or do we forge our own Future in the heat of battle against tyranny? We all have a choice to make because if Life is about Anything, it is about Freedom. And Freedom is about Making a Choice. I made my choice. How about you?