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laodan rated 15 months ago- A Possible Utopian Society of the Future via my friend nadimchaudry, in Right Brained by Fitz
After warning against the dangers of blindly following technology in my 2084 post, I am going to argue that the advance of civilization can produce a society that allows for the ultimate fulfillment of human potential and happiness. The ancient Greeks called it Eudaimonic. A Eudaimonic society encourages each citizen to achieve happiness through the striving to fulfill completely his or her potential. The best way to achieve this is by freeing humankind from the necessity of making a living. Humankind (in the industrialized world) is forced into a system where they spend the first 20 years of their life in a holding pattern, waiting to enter society as a producing and consuming member. Current capitalist society which promotes and socializes humans to strive for individual excellence, is built on the premise that by working hard, you will be rewarded with a wealth of material possessions (which one is socialized to desire). Now imagine if humankind could be free of the necessity to make a living. What would one do with oneself? The Greeks (who had shit figured out a long-time ago), strived for excellence of mind, body, and community (the city-state). Of course having a large amount of slave labor freed them from the necessities of making a living. And it is in Greek society that we see the intellectual birth of Western philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, etc... A Possible Utopian Society of the Future
Great post and interesting comments. I fully agree with Fitz that there is"A growing sense that our current society does not provide the means to make human beings feel happy and fulfilled." and I also invite to follow his "... imagine if all the necessities of life were provided for, not by slave labor, but by mechanized labor (cybernectic, AI, whatever). This would once again free human beings, as with the Greeks before, to pursue a life which best brings out their fullest potential, thus achieving happiness, not through the acquisition of material possessions, but through self-fulfillment." But would man pursue self-fulfillment? As Fitz writes "... without the impetus for material acquisition, will human kind sink into despair and debauchery. Or will it spark a new revolution in arts, science, literature, philosophy, exploration, etc...?" Human reality is fully contained in the worldviews that humans share amongst themselves... (what you think is what you get) so the real question about humanity's future boils down to "divine" the future post-modern worldview... or better to try to decipher, within our present reality, those signs that will shape our future worldview... That's basically what my writing and painting are all about.
- A Possible Utopian Society of the Future via my friend nadimchaudry, in Right Brained by Fitz
