With instantaneous access to all knowledge, we are not more wise, practical, nor empathetic: in fact, precisely the opposite.
That seems quaint, but three centuries into the Age of Reason, with instantaneous access to all knowledge, we are not more wise, practical, nor empathetic: in fact, precisely the opposite. Our leaders and commissars are stumped as preferred methods fail to improve us or society. But we who hold onto old notions of metaphysics are ready and willing to offer some new diagnostic questions to puzzle out a cure.
Do I believe that man is the sum of his parts? If we really are just ugly bags of salty water, there is no reason to show our species any peculiar love nor loyalty. It follows therefore that humans have no inherent dignity, just traits and behaviors that group us together into many strata, hierarchies, or sections of the bell curve, based on both immutable as well as mutable characteristics.
Do I believe that man has free will? Much of our society no longer believes that humans have the ability to choose. Instead, we follow patterns of behavior dictated by a combination of environmental stimuli and chemical reactions in the brain, all of which creates a feedback loop. Thus there can be neither virtue nor vice, since all actions are predetermined, from self-abuse to self-sacrifice.
Do I believe the material realm is all that exists? That is what our society claims. But the briefest glance at history tells us that an unbelieving polity is totally novel. Our brave new world offers cradle to grave services complete with orders of life whose express intent is paradise on earth, capped off with the possibility of cryogenics for the body or social media life after death for your personality.
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