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I mean of course the part where Sisko said it led to better things.
Our species will not have the stars. We are not going to have a post-scarcity future. We are too primitive and we don’t have the mental tools to even understand when we’re being manipulated, much less all work together to create a socialist utopia without wealth-hoarding and exploitation.
One of the exceptional traits of humans is their ability to build and create tools. Language, reading and mathematics are some of the most powerful tools humans have and they’re all mental tools. Unfortunately that tool making skill is a double edged sword as it’s capable of both creating tools of information/education/etc. and tools of manipulation/misinformation/etc.
It wouldn’t be as much of an issue if there weren’t decades of cultivating mental tools of disinformation and manipulation, marketing/propaganda/public speaking/etc. and if humans can create those tools they can create tools that do the opposite.
Unfortunately, the “evil” tools are currently winning and will take quite a bit of effort to dismantle and healthy/productive tools built in their stead. Hoarding and rampant exploitation are not inherent laws and could be reversed. Seems rather unlikely at the moment, but teetering on the brink of extinction tends to cause pretty radical shifts.
GUINAN: Some may argue that a diamond is still a diamond, even if it is one amongst millions. It still shines as brightly.
SAMUEL CLEMENS: Someone might say that, dear lady, if someone thought that the human race was akin to a precious jewel. But this…increasingly hypothetical someone…would not be me.
That whole story is so unrealistic.
I mean of course the part where Sisko said it led to better things.
Our species will not have the stars. We are not going to have a post-scarcity future. We are too primitive and we don’t have the mental tools to even understand when we’re being manipulated, much less all work together to create a socialist utopia without wealth-hoarding and exploitation.
One of the exceptional traits of humans is their ability to build and create tools. Language, reading and mathematics are some of the most powerful tools humans have and they’re all mental tools. Unfortunately that tool making skill is a double edged sword as it’s capable of both creating tools of information/education/etc. and tools of manipulation/misinformation/etc.
It wouldn’t be as much of an issue if there weren’t decades of cultivating mental tools of disinformation and manipulation, marketing/propaganda/public speaking/etc. and if humans can create those tools they can create tools that do the opposite.
Unfortunately, the “evil” tools are currently winning and will take quite a bit of effort to dismantle and healthy/productive tools built in their stead. Hoarding and rampant exploitation are not inherent laws and could be reversed. Seems rather unlikely at the moment, but teetering on the brink of extinction tends to cause pretty radical shifts.
I unfortunately agree.
GUINAN: Some may argue that a diamond is still a diamond, even if it is one amongst millions. It still shines as brightly.
SAMUEL CLEMENS: Someone might say that, dear lady, if someone thought that the human race was akin to a precious jewel. But this…increasingly hypothetical someone…would not be me.