Practical Futurism: The Current Surmountable Division of Humanity

 In the pre space based society the two main outlooks on the meaning of life broke down into distinct and incongruous worldviews. 

Those that believed space technology and its correlatives are of no ultimate importance to "life here on earth" were a sort of broad scale convergence of struggles mixed with ennui both unacknowledged and unspoken. 

On the other hand the soon to be dominant order of society was extremely outspoken in promoting the grandest leap of technology ever envisioned thereby transforming the individuals as instruments within that mission of the continuous scientific progress.

The financial powers thinking they controlled technology to their own ends were soon disabused of their folly. The insane presumptions that controlling land and resources could compete with technological transformation in the very definition of resources via the thermonuclear fusion MHD space economy. 

As interplanetary workforce expands by the dint of necessity, a sort of "trans-human" prototype will emerge. This will hopefully "cleanse" the future of human civilization of non consequential mundane concerns such as inherited land, wealth and titles to standing on this launching pad of a planet. 

The very notion of resources will undergo a revolution of a nature analogous to a Cantorian cardinality of transfinite. The earth based survivors of geopolitical machinations whatever their state may be still yet the recipients of such largess of the successor society. Such will function as human resources to be recruited as citizen potential yet bound to earth to the unfolding tasks of ongoing emerging areas of concern in increasingly audacious goals in the conquest of a deeper deployments and habitations in space, in kind and spirit. 

Artist's Conception of Nuclear Power Deployment on Mars

NASA Glenn Research

The Unheard Beauty of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

 The inchoate supernal dialogue that is both a premonition of loss and joyful herald of hope at once washes over the listener in astounding hyperbolic drama waged through the originality in the voices that Beethoven illumines. The mind is uniquely the subject of possibility of unfettered access to creative genius as a fully developed emotional journey’s comprehension and progress beyond the mere mundane to  the seeming invitation to forever soar above in celestial glory. 

Listen on this Vernal Celebration of the Power to Do the Universal Good still somehow even yet within humanity’s fleeting grasp. Delicate as a baby’s tears turning to laughter, yet powerful as the very substance  of galactic forces nearly unimaginable drawing in of all matter into the vortex that we only know as seen by it’s stark and terrible effects.

Truth is Not a Thing in Itself

 The concepts of heaven and hell have in some fashion been with our species from before there was perhaps even anything like human language as we now know it. These are not things to be understood the way which we understand solid reality in the here and now, rather they are metaphors. They are metaphors about alternative futures for ourselves.

Heaven is a potential wherein humanity is equipped to willfully choose to advance ourselves beyond our own mere mortality by bequeathing a gift of a method whereby to continue to uncover the hidden unknowns of the developing substance of truth. This truth has many many aspects to it, only some of which we are in the process of imagining. By doing this we perpetuate that evolving potential to succeed in that which gives us real and substantial happiness. True happiness that is thus expressible as the metaphor of heaven.

Hell is the destruction of this same potential by wanton dismissal of its very possibility. On the world stage today that would be the end of the continuation self reflective evolving life on this planet, i.e. humankind. The turning away from the vast unknown mission barely and still only grasped by the mind yet darkly would be the inescapable end for our species.

Only when we truly realize and are able admit this and to agree that all else, all other is absolutely of no real value in the face of these considerations, will we be able to put behind us the collective historical mistake in not comprehending the reality of the metaphorical nature of what has long held us in thrall to mere illusions rather than the higher truth as necessarily understood in these terms. The question of faith in these metaphors is knowing that if the universe were composed in any other way these choices would not even be available to us.

A Mental Gedankenexperiment

The self evident idiocy of geopolitical wars ending in the extinction of humanity.

The Question:

 Is there existing universal substantial creative being? Or rather perhaps continuous state of becoming? The potential state of  advancing toward knowledge of that good.

The Argument:

Meanwhile, the world’s self appointed elites are brandishing the power of war and peace in order to have their control in hand, unrelinquished. 

The dual mentalities in a fight where the outcome is complete destruction of humanity is either an unrelenting will to never fail versus the continual flaunting of any real rules. This even though “rules” are given as the fallback position for obstinacy on stopping the charge based upon so-called mutual defense pacts against the enemy, now Russia, now China. The new axis of evil previously Islamic fundamentalism.

The game is to be left controlling the chessboard no matter what. Even as your own population is decimated via economic warfare so indecorously brought down upon them.

So, is this not the case that a totally alternate goal that can unify the aspiration of humanity is to leave this planet’s tiny Lilliputian concerns behind? Thereby uplifting the earthbound populace away from such needless conditions as poverty and energy deficits.

Oppose these delightful prospects for humanity in your mindseye, if you will, to the images on the video screens of pessimistic and mordant drama of science fiction fantasies whose future off-worlds become as wretched as current conditions on this planet yet basely transformed.

The Answer:

Is the subject that will bring victory for posterity, spaced based expansions of civilization, true civilization and not barbarity. The resolution can only be the historical answer to the ontological issue in the first declaration in this posting.

Artist conception of Mars settlement