A
denzien of the
Epicurean mailng list ventured:
On another more leisurely occasion, I would like to start the rather
difficult discussion as to whether a scientific approach may be of any
use at all in human behaviour and morality?
Cheers.
This was my answer to his mail:
I can only assume that some day the
scientific community will get around
to rigging the world up to
stress monitors and make everyone part of a
walking census. All things that are near to universally stressful will be
considered
morally corrupt. All actions, all cause and all effect will be
molecularly subdivided, worked and re-worked down to its atomic end
result.
Emotions,
right,
wrong and
what-have-you will be
mathematically
evaluated and then
implemented into
a fitting social roll of good bad or
indifferent. Sounds like a
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. plot.
As a
global people one thing we can all agree on is
overkill, and I am
sure science will go the way of the dodo just as
religion is now. Science
and reason will oust religion, I am sure of that. This is contingent on a
few things, but
maintaining the
present course of events,
God is a
no-show; the
Amish allow
cell phones. Next thing you know, the
Pope is
doing adds for
Trojan and
its all downhill from there.
Again, I truly am not arguing the reality of
God(s)(TM), only the
reality
of circumstance.
I am
twenty-two years old and I have never stepped foot inside a
college
class room, but I will tell you what life's education has taught me.
The
thinkers of my generation are
godless. Beyond that, they are
godless, they
are
educated and they are
pissed as all
hell.
The
brainwashed and the
initiated are
gods of
a bygone era. At this rate
there won't be enough "
Old Blood" to run
our little socio-economic
monstrosity any longer.
History does repeat itself. Perhaps
science and pop culture will take over
the world, but they will be ousted too one day for something beyond the
scope of my
imagining.
Collective consciousness,
the 60's - part three;
I
have no idea.
So to give you my
opinion, yes,
science will someday define
morality.
If it will be of
use depends on which side of morality you end up on when
science is
God. Science or those who control the direction of
science
will have
power. We will bend to their motives as we bend to the motives
of our
Christian rooted western society. All humans have
motives. ;)
I wish I could find this old man I once met. He told me about a group of
people that he met with who were rather
philosophical Agnostics who
believed that everything becomes
corrupt,
festers, and then
dies and makes
way for the new.
He said to me, "We even hold it as a truth that some day our own
organization will some day fall to
greedy hands, become corrupted by power
and fall to pieces, and we accept it as a truth and go on; we don't let it
phase us."
I would say that is fairly
wise if not a tad bit
fatalistic. As much as I
believe science has a better understanding of how the
universe truly
works, I do think it will eventually go way too far in its
wanderings and
inevitably cause
irreparable damage to
society. We are infantile as a
society. We follow basic trends and
patterns. Our developments are of
self-interest only and we are
desensitized mercilessly.
Our countries are
run by the best liars and are corrupted on such a scale that
diplomacy
could now be defined as "The art of bullshitting while wearing an
Armani
suit". Soon enough things will bottom out. People are going to get irate
here pretty quick. The
internet is going to facilitate it, but I
digress.
Once again I babble off the
beaten track.
Aloha,
-
moJoe
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"While there is a lower class I am in it,
While there is a criminal element I am of it;
While there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
-Eugene Debs (1855-1926)
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