the history of human evolution has ended, once again. free market economy with welfare state, global peace, free trade, secularism, etc are the final consensus point to which all humanity is moving.
but history has ended before. it ended when all humans were hunter-gatherers for ever. but then came agriculture with all the troubles of feudalism, kings, slaves etc but finally all humanity adopted agriculture, except in very isolated corners of the earth. then again, there came industrialisation, rise of cities, capitalism and global trade empires and history ended. then came socialism, fascism etc which struggled against capitalism and lost, but not before every capitalist society integrated socialist concepts like state-sponsored education, healthcare, housing, food stamps, etc. so history has ended probably for our generation. but when humans colonize space, food and even humans are grown in laboratories, when humans gain control of the genes for intelligence and aging, then history will start again. and that time is not so far away.
but history has ended before. it ended when all humans were hunter-gatherers for ever. but then came agriculture with all the troubles of feudalism, kings, slaves etc but finally all humanity adopted agriculture, except in very isolated corners of the earth. then again, there came industrialisation, rise of cities, capitalism and global trade empires and history ended. then came socialism, fascism etc which struggled against capitalism and lost, but not before every capitalist society integrated socialist concepts like state-sponsored education, healthcare, housing, food stamps, etc. so history has ended probably for our generation. but when humans colonize space, food and even humans are grown in laboratories, when humans gain control of the genes for intelligence and aging, then history will start again. and that time is not so far away.
No comments:
Post a Comment