Can only build it so long....

So Seldon Crisis,  it is easy to get all muddled up with the rise and
fall of civilizations, in connection with this,,, and it's an interesting path,
but I need to get to the point, what is our current """.... whatever
you want to call it crisis """" ....

I would call it a crisis of " REASON "....
meaning the inability to digest some simple facts:

Simple facts, easy to recognize, for example.

1) we have 1 / one / that means only one, planet here.

2) mostly, if you think about it the " people " population
    is represented as one species, even if there might
    be " out liers " in some technical sense ...

3)  is a little harder to grasp,,,,

     Do we want to live in an environment of confusion,
     chaos, massive difficulties, or " in some degree of
     comfort, with a sense of dignity and some kind of
     sense of security. ??????

If it cost a little more to get the latter, you must certainly
admit,, the cost is worth it, because the main alternative
is highly unpleasant.

More On Seldon Crisis

I am getting a bit a stream from 2 party politics, but I
feel it is necessary to discuss further the issue and
nature of what I refer to as Seldon Crisis.....

And as mentioned in post below the issue is perspective.


So, in previous posts on  21 Oh Man,

looking-forward-to-progress

 foundation


To re-iterate these ideas are based on a cyclic perspective of
history:  repeating themes, which re-occur through history
in particular going back to Roman times, because we
do have a fairly complete record of  that period.

So just the set up of the concept is intriguing,  and
intriguing to think that 13,000 years in the future a
humanoid dominated galaxy would reproduce an imperial
system of government.  Somehow an exceptionally
curious thought, nevertheless there is more to it.

A mathematical conjecture or hypothesis, that suggests
that the future can be accurately predicted into the future
for large populations, surrounds this concept of
Seldon Crisis, and within that the notion of uniquely
( uniquely, is not an easy word to spell ),  anyway,
critical events, that actually determine the future.

Secondly, within the novel the idea suggests, that individual
efforts do not change this ( branching points, / or transition ),
But future events cling on there successfully conclusion.

A very interesting and surprisingly complex notion about
how civilization progresses.

So,  what I suggest and suggested is that this kind of
event is occurring now for all of us ( well, that means
everyone ).

So what exactly is the nature of this crisis?

I will get back to that,,,, ( promise, I do ) ...

Science, Religion, Politics and Existential Crisis

Some of this goes back to :  21 Oh Man  and in particular 21.0


In that post I discuss 3 major groupings, science, religion,
and politics.  And everyone has a more or less specific
grouping that they tend to rely on or connect with in
a greater or lesser degree.  There are several others,
two prominently being military and business.

One common aspects of these groups in to acknowledge
if there is a problem, it is the result or fault of one of
the other groups.  Science might suggest business,
business suggests politics or the military might blame
everyone else.  There are many other combinations and
of course and I did not mention communication or media, and
so I won't.

After having discussed the big 3, I have a few words about
business, because anyone or everyone might consider
themselves a businessman of a sort, because it does sort
of seem like life revolves around " money ".......

Actually, and objectively what we unusually think of as " life ",
which is --- an " earth like " environment, revolves around the
sun,  and science would have us belief that the sun is not made
of money,  but it is really also clear it has a lot to do with it (money).

Now today, many people have suggested that we are experiencing
an " existential crisis " of some type.   I like to think of it, however,
as a Hari Seldon Crisis,  of  a psycho-historical, or maybe  psycho-hysterical
nature and at some point I hope to bring that idea into focus.  But
whether we think of it as existential or psycho-historical, probably
not that important.   " Something is happening here ... ", and it has
many disturbing under and over tones.   So what  I think is
relevant is a clearer understanding, how all these processes
which constitute " life " are in fact tightly interconnected.

And they possess a complex nature.  But I can only assert,
we,  ( all of us ), do now, possess the capacity to in fact
address them honestly and sincerely, see through the haze,
and see that clarity ahead.

And so this is a bit of an alternative of the main theme of this
blog which is that it is the poorly configured nature of
U.S. politics where we focus our concerns to extending that
to everybody ---- everywhere.