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Devaraj Sandberg's avatar

We don't need a vision for the future. We're now in the post-vision phase. The onus on the frontal lobes to work out "how the world should be" is over. It's now about self honesty and emergents.

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Peter Maguire's avatar

"The historical perpetuation of dictatorships in countries like Russia and China concentrates world-destroying power in the hands of men — sociopathic personalities — who used ruthless methods to climb to the top. These are very unsustainable scenarios." Russia and China are hardly alone. While I would not put the United State in the same league, we are hardly virgins and the only nation to drop atomic bombs. A nineteenth century German historian calculated that from 1496 b.c. to a.d. 1861, a span of 3,357 years, only 227 had been years of peace while 3,130 had been years of war. For every year of peace there had been thirteen years of war. Short of world dictatorship, how do propose implementing your admittedly utopian plan?

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