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I'll propose a more utopian future. The end of modernism and a return to humanism. A realization in the West that fetishizing technology has turned people into
by trgn 4y ago
I'll propose a more utopian future. The end of modernism and a return to humanism. A realization in the West that fetishizing technology has turned people into widgets. A genuine bottom-up counter movement that already exists today, but will be the mainstream. Man will yet again be measure of all things, rather than adapt to the measure. In practice; things like the triumph of the walkable city; more home schooling; disappearance of wage labor and more unionization, cooperative work-arrangements, stock-compensation; the extended family as the main arrangement to raise children; bans on social media and pornography; more GDPR and privacy-laws, ...
- mdp2021 4y ago> a more utopian future Based on what, on the realistic intervention of which actors? And are you sure all the ideals in your set can be considered objective, naturally sharable, as opposed to ideological and partial?
- trgn 4y ago> And are you sure all the ideals in your set can be considered objective, naturally sharable, as opposed to ideological and partial? Agreed, they are not objective. If you wish, you can change my first phrase to "a more dystopian future", if you think it's worse.
- astrange 4y agoWe already ended modernism. It ended when GenX grew up and didn't join the hippie counterculture. If anything, the problem is new generations will be pre-modern again.
- trgn 4y ago> when GenX grew up and didn't join the hippie counterculture. That was a mistake. GenX should have distilled the insights of the hippies, but chucking away the cosplay and fairytales. Modernism has not ended, it is the current state of the world.