What if that's not the goal? What if the goal is to move through and stay with the troubles long enough to become something different, and eventually work from within the ruins to explore possibilities we still have no reference for..?
I like to think of this as The Age of Consequence (literally 'finding out' after 'fucking around').
The consequences differ widely for different regions and people. That will just add to conflict, lack of learning, and "The Jackpot" scenario from the imagination of WIlliam Gibson.
I am not sure what you mean about goals. Whose goal for what project? I think we are timebound within our lives and at most a multigenerational horizon beyond which nothing is meaningfully "real" and thus "not our problem" or concern. The attempt to organize a collective national, imperial, and global interest/will/consensus has been nothing but madness at every turn.
So maybe a goal should be anarchistic and personalistic... Modern people aren't appropriately focused on each other and themselves within these mortal horizons. All talk of the species and its collective concern across vast spans of time is very recent and delusional, a symptom of modernity's diseases — chiefly Hegel, whose cult fueled Marx and liberal progressivism — all based on a fantastic idol of where "history" should go and end, and how that should look. This is all dead, dying, and debunked now — people who believed in it speak of being haunted by a future that never was to be. Clearly, it's a disorder to be gotten over!
Futurity itself enters languages and human consciousness very late, so whenever people speak casually about "the future" they typically have no idea what they are talking about. It's all fiction.
Hebrew linear-historical thinking shocked the ancient world and did not really sink in with intellectuals until the Renaissance. Our concept of history really only got itself truly grounded and widely understood in the 19th century due to geology and astronomy. Still, most people could not cope with the vastness of space, the enormous scale of time, and the tiny finale we are in — let alone the idea that (space-)time is a variable, relative property of gravity and an artifact of consciousness+memory.
So, I don't believe species survival is a sane or possible goal if that is what you are talking about. The sun-earth system does not have that much time left. Asteroids and supervolcanos will take us out if nothing else does, all within only tens of thousands of years. But what is that to us within our actual human scale? We have to find better reasons within ourselves to limit our immediate survival/consumption concerns in our little tribes that we have not transcended and will devolve back into. Or it may just be a crab bucket ride through bottomless hell.
The choice is willful, and the problem is self-correcting. The current Age of the Ass will see the end of the galaxy's stupidest species.
What if that's not the goal? What if the goal is to move through and stay with the troubles long enough to become something different, and eventually work from within the ruins to explore possibilities we still have no reference for..?
I like to think of this as The Age of Consequence (literally 'finding out' after 'fucking around').
The consequences differ widely for different regions and people. That will just add to conflict, lack of learning, and "The Jackpot" scenario from the imagination of WIlliam Gibson.
I am not sure what you mean about goals. Whose goal for what project? I think we are timebound within our lives and at most a multigenerational horizon beyond which nothing is meaningfully "real" and thus "not our problem" or concern. The attempt to organize a collective national, imperial, and global interest/will/consensus has been nothing but madness at every turn.
So maybe a goal should be anarchistic and personalistic... Modern people aren't appropriately focused on each other and themselves within these mortal horizons. All talk of the species and its collective concern across vast spans of time is very recent and delusional, a symptom of modernity's diseases — chiefly Hegel, whose cult fueled Marx and liberal progressivism — all based on a fantastic idol of where "history" should go and end, and how that should look. This is all dead, dying, and debunked now — people who believed in it speak of being haunted by a future that never was to be. Clearly, it's a disorder to be gotten over!
Futurity itself enters languages and human consciousness very late, so whenever people speak casually about "the future" they typically have no idea what they are talking about. It's all fiction.
Hebrew linear-historical thinking shocked the ancient world and did not really sink in with intellectuals until the Renaissance. Our concept of history really only got itself truly grounded and widely understood in the 19th century due to geology and astronomy. Still, most people could not cope with the vastness of space, the enormous scale of time, and the tiny finale we are in — let alone the idea that (space-)time is a variable, relative property of gravity and an artifact of consciousness+memory.
So, I don't believe species survival is a sane or possible goal if that is what you are talking about. The sun-earth system does not have that much time left. Asteroids and supervolcanos will take us out if nothing else does, all within only tens of thousands of years. But what is that to us within our actual human scale? We have to find better reasons within ourselves to limit our immediate survival/consumption concerns in our little tribes that we have not transcended and will devolve back into. Or it may just be a crab bucket ride through bottomless hell.