Industrial Society and Its Future

Discussion in 'The Future' started by Dave_techie, Nov 24, 2008.

  1. Dave_techie

    Dave_techie I call Sheniangans

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    http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Industrial_Society_and_Its_Future

    edit: I think he hit some nails on the head, but in some aspects, I think he was too close to specific problems, and in being too close to them, there was a loss of general accessibility.

    the specificity lent to the explanation of surrogate activities though good for example building, causes a loss of overall universality of theme.
     
  2. Dave_techie

    Dave_techie I call Sheniangans

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    I'm really surprised there weren't more comments on teddy's opinions.
     
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  4. odon

    odon Slightly Popular

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    I think this is one for Balbus.
     
  5. drew5147

    drew5147 Dingledodie

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  6. notjoetheplumber

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    Simple reality is that we live on a planet with finite resources that we continually abuse and deplete in the name of greed. As with all ecosystems, we will reach a point of no return and we will suffer a catastrophic failure of our ecosystem and our planet will become extinct. Religion is one of the instruments of control that fuels this insane drive.
     
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    The concept of God and the codification of "Moral Behavior" are constructs that lay the bed rock for the thought processes that place man above nature and absolve our behavior on this planet. If you read the Bible with critical thought and apply an underlying construct of destructive thought to the process, it all begins to make sense. Wake up and smell a dieing planet.
     
  8. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    the future of "industrial society" is unrecognizable from its present form for reasons that have very little if anything to do with belief. and only a little to do with human society itself either.

    well a lot to do with what people don't think about, the incientives that are created statistically by people doing things they take for granted.

    it doesn't depend on some kind of outside supreme will or wills either. its our own doing. just in ways we don't think about. and it's partially the not thinking about that's a big part of it.

    it's a statistical consensus of all of us together, after the fact. how the real natural universe actually works in response to the changes we have forced upon it, in turn forces real changes in tangible, rather then social ways, most people haven't yet really begun to understand. i mean average joe sixpack people. science can see what's happining and does. but economics doesn't give a dam. and people are still conned, into expecting to get more out of economics and each other's consensus of emotion then any real understanding of how things that don't depend on human emotional attatchement to familiar economic assumptions actually work.

    of course people who exploit the economic thing try to pretend it's about belief.
     

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