When Jim Morrison sang “I’m a change-ling, see me change” … who knows what he was thinking about? As we may think, he might have been alluding to the Godfather of modern views about change: Non-Nobel Peace Prize winner Gandhi, who apparently advised us all to “be the change you want to see in the world” (maybe without saying those words, exactly).
Very few people actually follow in his footsteps — unless perhaps people want to see global warming, mass extinction, nuclear war, … (to name just a few of mankind’s ungodly inventions).
It almost seems like the machines and technologies we all work so hard to develop and employ are all designed to annihilate humanity. The most modern case of this is so-called “Artificial Intelligence”, because if the algorithms ever were to get the idea that humans are sub-optimal (and maybe even problematical), then perhaps nothing would prevent them from cleansing the Earth of the primary cause of its present diseases.
Such AI-brained nonsense seems more plausible than ever these days.
Were I to bring forth an argument for how humans ought to react to this man-made threat, I might suggest revisiting the ideas of a 19th Century man named Malthus, who has been whole-heartedly ridiculed in the one or two centuries since he first proposed them. Or maybe the Luddite ideas of his contemporary Mr. Ludd.
If we want to build a world that will sustain humans, then it needs to be a world in which humans and the nature of natural developments (i.e. evolution) can co-exist. The degree to which the targets in the sights of these two disparate goals are veering apart ought to be cause for alarm bells to be ringing loud and clear in every human mind.
Never mind — these problems will probably resolve themselves soon enough (see also “Inter-Reliance, Self-Dependence & Responsibility“).
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