Well said.
Yup, Nietzsche's sister is the "villian" in this case, along with her, "New Germany in Paraguay", Jew baiting, idiot, husband.
How do the radical feminists feel about this, would be an interesting study. I can just see the enormous contortionists, logical, flip-flops they would do to turn Nietzsche's sister into an abused, tortured, mis-understood, heroine.
In the light of what happened to Nietzsche, thanks to his dingbat sister, his diatribes againt women are not completely without value, and do apply in many cases, but not in all cases of course.
One wild theory, is that something was discovered on the Moon; a kind of "hey monkeys, you better stay on Earth, or we're going to wipe you out" kind of message, in some form, or another.
A kind of quarentin barrier for humankind.
But, that kind of theory let's dumb human decisions, off the hook. It places the blame somewhere else, instead with us.
For me, the most chilling reason for our failure to colonize space, is the mediocrity of human beings, in general. In large numbers, we seem to evolve backwards into hair scratching apes, and I include the scientists among the scratchers, too.
If we can't even raise our heads, collectively, out of the mud, then all this hope for heaven on earth in the digital singurality, seems like another pipe dream.
Rod Serling seems to have been the most accurate SF literary predictor of where we were, and are, going.
In the early 1970s, when there was "cheer-leader" techie talk about how wonderful things would be by 2000, Serling said, "no..., in 2000 there will be war, greed, hatred, stupidity; the world will be much the way it is today ( 1970s )"
Serling was right, and the techie cheerleaders were mostly wrong.
Sadly, I don't buy most of the predictions on these pages, although I find them fascinating.
Fifty years from now, things will be much the same, with war, greed, hatred, stupid, as common as they are, now.
Of course technology will have advanced, but technology has advanced since I was a kid, in the 1950, 60s, too, and the human race, in genersl, is as self-destructive, and foolish, as ever.
Most citizens will use the the brain/computer connections, if they are possible, for trivial pop culture nonsense, in the same way that most desktop radios are not used for playing Beethoven, or Mahler, but for playing some discordant, moronic, "bing, boom" trash.
High-Tech, most likely, will continue to be used for moronic purposes, and if morals, and ethics, continue on their downward slide into relativism, the High-Tech future will be a High-Tech jungle, filled with violence, rage, boredom, and meaninglessnes. It will be worse than we can imagine; a kind of digital barbarism.
What if the super computer takes one look at us, snorts with digital disgust, and banishes the entire human race into a "virtual reality" hell, a kind of digital Dante's Inferno, or the like.
Edited by Casanova, 11 June 2003 - 03:51 AM.