RE: Is contemporary atheism sufficient to sustain a civilisation?
August 14, 2016 at 8:27 am
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2016 at 8:43 am by Anomalocaris.)
(August 14, 2016 at 8:08 am)abaris Wrote:(August 14, 2016 at 2:19 am)Minimalist Wrote: Ask China. They seem to be doing fine.
Ask the chinese workers and the majority of the population. Are they doing fine? Is that a model to strive for?
Actually, majority of Chinese population and worker probably thinks they are doing fine, in the sense that the majority of the really thorny problems which truly troubled their and their ancesters' sleep since time immemorial no longer troubled them. When a society with long memories and a ingrained tendency to measure the present by the past experiences the lifting of the majority of citizens from almost medieval poverty, hunger, susceptibility to natural diseaster to modern standards of living within one generation, they tend see that as a great and positive good vastly more impressive on a practical scale than the rights, or airy talks of imaginary gods, with which already wealthy, but slow growing, societies amuse themselves.
