Great write up! It’s an inspiring thought to imagine that humanity might have a sanctuary far outside our cultural reach.
Where our precedents do not stand, our grand narratives are ignored, our collective unconscious is separated, and our rituals are rescinded.
I’ve seen so many posts craving freedom from our monoculture. Hoping that we might cast aside our phones, embrace more communal living, shift the goals of our city planning, and so many other hopes.
Though the monoculture acts as a Hobbes-like leviathan. The hopes of a socialized ape have little sway over its towering and totalizing presence. As your essay suggests, we might defeat it by distance instead of destruction.
Out there. Among the stars. We can be free. Not only in the way science fiction authors play with a single tweak on a status quo, but a drift of tectonic proportions. This small existence on Earth may be our Cambrian explosion of culture and in a few short millennia we might hardly recognize ourselves.
This post was thematically similar to parts of Kurzgesagt's latest video, even down to the analogy with Polynesian settlement! I suppose it's a coincidence, but certainly an interesting one.
I love to think that english is an alien language, because « a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.... » everybody was already speaking english! We kept the language but we lost the lightspeed travel and the lightsaber technologies 👽🤖
Great write up! It’s an inspiring thought to imagine that humanity might have a sanctuary far outside our cultural reach.
Where our precedents do not stand, our grand narratives are ignored, our collective unconscious is separated, and our rituals are rescinded.
I’ve seen so many posts craving freedom from our monoculture. Hoping that we might cast aside our phones, embrace more communal living, shift the goals of our city planning, and so many other hopes.
Though the monoculture acts as a Hobbes-like leviathan. The hopes of a socialized ape have little sway over its towering and totalizing presence. As your essay suggests, we might defeat it by distance instead of destruction.
Out there. Among the stars. We can be free. Not only in the way science fiction authors play with a single tweak on a status quo, but a drift of tectonic proportions. This small existence on Earth may be our Cambrian explosion of culture and in a few short millennia we might hardly recognize ourselves.
This post was thematically similar to parts of Kurzgesagt's latest video, even down to the analogy with Polynesian settlement! I suppose it's a coincidence, but certainly an interesting one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_JQOH1tEEA
I love to think that english is an alien language, because « a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.... » everybody was already speaking english! We kept the language but we lost the lightspeed travel and the lightsaber technologies 👽🤖