"The human race will eventually die, of civilisation..." - Ralf Waldo Emerson
There is a lot to say about this. So many issues to complain
about, but let's be honest, it is very well said, very well summarized. And
after all, civilization is our own creation.
The human race is
without a doubt a 'best in class' in terms of natural selection. Why wait for
nature to select the species that can adapt, survive or disappear when we can
do the job ourselves? Let me elaborate: we are the ones that, on a drunken
night, would drive the car off the cliff. Humans are causing their own end. And
of course, by humans I mean all of our monstrous creations... that we call civilization.
Wars, nuclear and chemical weapons, heavy high scale productions... what else
is there to add?
Fukuyama said that
Humanity reached the maximum state of civilization greatness and that this is
the best of achievements (heaven on Earth basically) - what a funny thought.
Years and an apology later, he made a correction: Nano technology and advanced Nano
biology appeared. Humans are now transforming and we are entering a new era
where borders between machinery and human beings are becoming extremely blurry.
That means, for Fukuyama, that the human civilization will soon know a new
golden age. This means, for the rest of us mortals, that we are approaching -
with high speed - the day when we say goodbye to humanity as we know it. And
there goes the auto-destruction (or auto-'natural'-selection) work. Luckily for
Earth, nature will finally get rid of its cancer; unfortunately, it will be
replaced by another unknown disease. Who is in?
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