"'...might we return to the inhibitor field out in space - why not? Go back to being stupid. Maybe we'll be happier that way. No, no, I realize you can't go home again.'"
-Brain Wave, 7, p. 71.
Hegelian thinking becomes relevant yet again.
Thesis: Suddenly, everyone can think more quickly.
Antithesis: But most people have nothing to think about except their superstitions, prejudices, hates, fears and greeds.
Synthesis: Therefore, their accelerated thought processes merely rationalize these superstitions etc.
Antithesis: But this is unsatisfactory, frightening and confusing.
Synthesis: Therefore, the new Third Ba'al religion tells them to reject intellect in an emotional orgy.
Antithesis: But this can't last.
Synthesis: Constructive applications of new intellectual powers will emerge.
Already there is a Relativity-quantum mechanics synthesis and food synthesis plants and the prospects of atomic energy from any material and of faster than light travel.
The sky is, literally, the limit.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
The real world, of course, is more complex. I would be overjoyed if Elon Musk manages to found his Mars colony.
Ad astra! Sean
Is that remotely going to happen?
Mankind into space, yes. Musk soon? Another matter.
Kaor, Paul!
At the very least, Musk and SpaceX has made far more progress in developing space technology than anyone else has done since 1973. So much so that I don't think it's impossible to imagine SpaceX sending a manned expedition to Mars within a few years.
Ad astra! Sean
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