Random Thoughts

[Nanny]

I was raised with Star Trek/Roddenberry and, clandestinely due to my catholic upbringing, Uncle Carl Sagan. Broader perspective and an optimistic one for our species. Pale blue dot stuff. No one is coming to save us from ourselves.

These ideas are mostly dead now. They've been replaced by likes and clicks and views and other vapid reasons. We're not serious. We're a culture of memes

That's here. That's home. That's us. A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

I’m weirdly impressed - that was depressing and lyrical at the same time. Good stuff.

Boru

Roddenberry and Sagan provided an alternative from the noir of the 50s and 60s, seeing technology as a beacon for our species. We no longer think that big. We're programmed by influences that simply don't matter. We're a species distracted by technology, not enabled by it.

Roddenberry and Sagan saw a future where human differences were overcome, and we strove for expanding our understanding. That is no more Difference is the main point now. Devolution.

ETA - Technological pursuit is still a noble cause, but one pursued by the more higher classes economically, and financed by the elite.


I'm fully a hypocrite here. I am in the innovation economy. I recognize the difference of viewpoints.