The Effect of Revolutionary Realizable Scientific Advancements and the Organization of Society

 While the follies of failed ideology proceed to their inevitable undoing, the continuing efforts to advance humanity’s mastery of space, communication, energy, biophysics and indeed time itself tend to undermine the matrix of outmoded assumptions of societal organization. 

For example, the recent incipient  development of non-invasive brain electromagnetic interface with control of the so called internet of things via uniquely designed metasurfaces by Chinese researchers coupled with advancements in the peopling of habitable planets and bodies artificial in outer space portends a potential overthrowing of the geopolitical deadly “Great Game” underway in the current unfolding of history. 

The new powers thus to be unleashed are of a reordering “game changing” significance. This is the lifeline for altering human history in the near and long term. This includes but is not limited to financial systems and redefined resource bases.

A program of financial reforms that conform to such true long term aims of humanity may be in the offing in the near term as the crisis of the outmoded faulty system comes to a close. As strange as this line of thinking might appear on the surface of things, nevertheless such are the underpinnings of history’s march if examined in the proper perspective. 

Who Makes History?

 There is a zeitgeist willy-nilly for good or ill abroad on this planet. Now, there are several aspects of that phenomenon that may be considered. One interesting literary and political giant that had much to say on the subject was the good Reverend Jonathan Swift. In particular, he brought to consciousness the battle of the books as an example of “modernity” versus classicism. Brahms once remarked when the coterie around Wagner pompously proclaimed that his leitmotif compositions were the “music of the future,” that his music must be the music of the moment. 

Which is to say, that the spirit of the age acted to divide seemingly automatically art itself into camps. Thus Shelley’s dictum that the true poet necessarily reflects in many cases almost involuntarily that self same spirit. But as Swift pointed out in Gulliver, most of the true actors that effected historical change are unknown to the stories we get passed down as “the truth.” And this brings me back to the question of the character of the direction of society molded by the superiority of epistemology at any point along the vector of time for human civilization. 

For example, take the extant plays of Aeschylus that use the chorus to aesthetically better humanity versus say Euripides who can only bring a tragic sort of forever war bias upon the stage. These alternate worldviews were of the age in Greece. But the audience that set the standard of performance must not be kept in the shadows. And there were of course a myriad of manners to embrue the city states’ inhabitants with that question of epistemology in subtler ways.

The world today is at a great crossroads. Much as in Dante’s Commedia, the alternate pathways for society are distinctly hellish or quite literally heavenly. A war to truly, this time, end all wars or a reordering of the  mission for humanity to venture forth into that hitherto great unknown. Thus the universality of the aforementioned zeitgeist.