The World without a World View

Has the world that we live in entered a new age of post-structuralism, lacking world vision, as anthropologist Alan MacFarlane asserts in his latest study? Are we truly becoming a species on the planet shifting, treading, and simply reacting mindlessly, constantly in motion as people, organizations, and nation states, but lacking a common vision for the next step in the evolution of humankind. I am not yet sure, but there is much to his argument that sways me to believe this might be so.

SayMyName said:

Has the world that we live in entered a new age of post-structuralism, lacking world vision, as anthropologist Alan MacFarlane asserts in his latest study? Are we truly becoming a species on the planet shifting, treading, and simply reacting mindlessly, constantly in motion as people, organizations, and nation states, but lacking a common vision for the next step in the evolution of humankind. I am not yet sure, but there is much to his argument that sways me to believe this might be so.

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The idea that our vision matters the least in the next evolutionary step is rather preposterous. It got this far without need of our vision.

I have no interest in watching thirty min of a crank pontificating to youtube.

SayMyName said:

Has the world that we live in entered a new age of post-structuralism, lacking world vision, as anthropologist Alan MacFarlane asserts in his latest study? Are we truly becoming a species on the planet shifting, treading, and simply reacting mindlessly, constantly in motion as people, organizations, and nation states, but lacking a common vision for the next step in the evolution of humankind. I am not yet sure, but there is much to his argument that sways me to believe this might be so.

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Now that was an interesting little vid. Really very good. Thx.

CLAX1911 said:

The idea that our vision matters the least in the next evolutionary step is rather preposterous. It got this far without need of our vision.

I have no interest in watching thirty min of a crank pontificating to youtube.

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Somehow, I thought of you as that kind of guy.

joG said:

Somehow, I thought of you as that kind of guy.

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The phrase post- structuralism put me off watching it. I do not believe that there has ever been a common vision for mankind's next step. In the days before mass communication how was this common vision propagated over the population of the Earth and have you an example of such a common vision?

SayMyName said:

Has the world that we live in entered a new age of post-structuralism, lacking world vision, as anthropologist Alan MacFarlane asserts in his latest study? Are we truly becoming a species on the planet shifting, treading, and simply reacting mindlessly, constantly in motion as people, organizations, and nation states, but lacking a common vision for the next step in the evolution of humankind. I am not yet sure, but there is much to his argument that sways me to believe this might be so.

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I listened to the video and I guess that you paraphrased it just right with the title = "The World without a World View".

There is no vision or purpose any more, and I see it as dangerous and inhuman.

But I really just mean for the USA as we have become mostly infidels to our Christianity.

Religion is what gives humans our world view, and Christianity has been largely trampled and suppressed in the USA.

In other places like China has plenty of vision, and India is booming, and all Islamic Countries are dynamic, and Catholic Countries are very happy people, so it really is just Protestant Christianity which has fallen under foot and lost its vision and purpose.

This is why the US elections have become so stale, in that the Politicians have nothing of substance to say.

This is why we have stupid wars going onward with no vision to win or to stop as we have no point or purpose.

If we the USA would honestly turn to God to find out what is right from wrong THEN yes then we would find out our purpose glowing like a star.

JP Cusick said:

If we the USA would honestly turn to God to find out what is right from wrong THEN yes then we would find out our purpose glowing like a star.

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Would the god Krishna serve the purpose?

zyzygy said:

Would the god Krishna serve the purpose?

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Yes - for me it would - but for the USA we here need to stop our infidelity to Christianity first.

My understanding is that the person (or demigod) Krishna is the same person (or demigod) as Jesus Christ.

The names are just in different languages.

Christ in Greek is Christos and it is equivolent to Christna as in Krishna = Christ.

Christ is translated as anointed one.

Krishna means the dark one.

Both have the same root meaning.

In the Bhagavadgita it tells that the message of Krishna is "dark" to those who can not see, but to the enlightened person it is NOT dark but bright as daylight.