The myths of tomorrow

[Thorgalaeg]

The myth that will be remembered fondly is that we are all in this together. As has been mentioned, the biological imperative to protect offspring lead to family units, and tribes, because "the wild" was out there; be that wild a pack of wolves or a clan of lesser hominids. But that same drive is what produced nation states because once the wolves and the lesser hominids were thoroughly subdued "the wild" was still out there. It was us. We like to act like the old days of 'us humans are in this together' haven't ended, and that the idea that we will be invited in so we can form a mutual defense against the ever present wolves still applies, but it doesn't. Other people are going to treat a stranger like they are the wolf, not an automatic ally against the wolf...and that makes a categorical difference in 'humanity.'

You mean homo hominis lupus, so man is a wolf to man (or a lesser hominid).

 

[Timsup2nothin]

You mean homo hominis lupus, so man is a wolf to man (or a lesser hominid).

I mean that we are operating right now in a morality of "killing a wolf is fine, because wolves are dangerous," even though they no longer are, and "killing other humans is wrong, because all men are brothers" even though they are actually not and are far more dangerous than the wolf ever was. That morality is disintegrating under the weight of its obvious errors.

 

[Evie]

When I look around today, I would say that currently there is going on a sort of iconoclasm, where previously central concepts such as nationhood or manhood are being obliterated, because, as the thinking goes, they are social constructs, and as such they are deemed not true, and as such meaningless and to be abolished. This is easily seen with the concept of gender or sex becoming murkier and murkier as the years go by.

Whoooooohooooo, I'm destroying social cohesion and bringing down civilization!

 

[Thorgalaeg]

I mean that we are operating right now in a morality of "killing a wolf is fine, because wolves are dangerous," even though they no longer are, and "killing other humans is wrong, because all men are brothers" even though they are actually not and are far more dangerous than the wolf ever was. That morality is disintegrating under the weight of its obvious errors.

I thought the morality in the 21st century was more like killing a wolf is bad because they are cute like dogs and are in danger of extinction and killing other humans is good because there are too many and most are Moderator Action: <Offensive term deleted> and creepy foreigners i cant understand.

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[Timsup2nothin]

That's my point...we are arriving at that, to varying degrees and from various directions. The "your bombing killed innocent civilians" isn't met with "so what, they aren't our civilians" quite everywhere, yet. The "well as long as the cops are only killing brown people I'm okay with it" isn't just ordinary when spoken directly, yet. But the path is becoming straight in front of us.