Will reason win out in the end?

[Taverner]

And even if it does, are we going to continue devolving before we hit the downward curve of diminishing returns?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

1. In the end yes...

But who the fuck knows when that will be? :shrug:
Duckie

[Taverner]

3. 'S what I'm afraid of

Poor Hypatia was burned in Alexandria, after a period of reason...

[Redstone]

2. No. And yes.

Simple answers. Big question is what happens after.

Redstone

[Taverner]

4. Well if reason is our dictum

Then we would have all the resources needed to solve the human condition

[Redstone]

5. We should indeed, but first we have to get through the other assholes''

greed, politicking, self-interest, blind determinism, Republicanism, and general dick-headedness.

If it were just US, we would fix things. But there's always THEM to deal with, more's the pity,

Redstone

[pitohui]

6. why would it, it never has before

reason is not natural to animals, even human animals, and since few are capable of it, we're inevitably out numbered

this is why democracies are always temporary and fragile but there have been monarchies and despots for 10,000 years

sorry we do the best we can but in the end the only winner is the 2nd law of thermodynamics

[Taverner]

9. What if society, from the beginning, were structured differently?

Say an educatocracy, where we are innundated with education from infancy all of our lives?

[cobalt1999]

7. No.

Reason has never won in history except in very brief windows, and even then it wasn't really winning - more like an occasional touchdown by the losing team in a blowout game.

I see no evidence reason will ever win, though it doesn't mean I won't do my part in the fight.

[anarch]

8. chaos always wins out in the end

but then again, every ending is a new beginning...or something.

[belladonna]

10. I used to think it might

Now it seems as though every day we fall deeper and deeper into the abyss :(

[swag]

11. Death will win in the end.

[NewWaveChick1981]

12. If you listen to what Devo's all about, devolution will hit rock

bottom before we start to bounce back. :( I have no idea when that will be, but the world has bounced back from dark times before. I just hope it's soon.

[tjwmason]

13. Never totally.

History is littered with periods of "good" followed by periods of "bad", followed by periods of "good" and so forth.

Reason is no perfect answer, because it fails to incorporate completely the human condition...I've never found anything approximating to a complete incorporation of humanity, until that happens (which I suspect will be never) we'll have to muddle through with better and worse patches as time passes.